For my thesis piece I plan on coding an interactive music program that can be controlled with a simple MIDI keyboard in real time by the viewer. The program will interpret notes played on the keyboard and plot it out in a radial fashion, which on a 360 degree completion, would come out as a certain shape. The shape is wholly determined by the user through interaction with the keyboard (what notes he plays and for how long). I have already posted sketches of the shapes I would like to work with as well as a new shape that I am experimenting with (shown below).
The core idea of my project would be the visualization of sound, or rather, using sound to create visuals. I am going to focus on static images however because as I have said earlier I want to create physical shapes from sound, each one a personal ID. The user will draw with the keyboard and form his own custom shape that is different from anyone else’s. I would like these shapes to be displayed on a projector so each users piece is featured for a brief time period. Another component to this installation would be a series of digital prints comparing different genres of music and different applications of sound shapes (I hope to have at least three distinct radial patterns to choose from).
Currently I am still in the coding phase and will be delving into Pure Data, which is a program specifically designed for music visualization (as suggested by my design professor Atif). I have just purchased a MIDI keyboard and I will begin testing with it as soon as possible. I realize that there is a lot that can go wrong when it comes to computer programming so that is why I’m starting as soon as I can.
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