APD Week 6 Play and Sounds

Theme: Play and Sounds

Context:

The theme of this week is Play and Sounds, about which we shared many interesting works in class. What impressed me most was an interactive work about editing music by scanning barcodes. This was the first time I saw it. I think some people who don't know how to make music can also enjoy making music through the work. Therefore, I also want to create such a game by using some objects in real life.

Method:

My idea is to associate the pitch of sound with the height of objects in real life, and create different music by scanning objects in real life. This idea may involve software programming, but due to time constraints, I have not been able to achieve it, so finally I want to simulate the situation when this game is implemented by shooting and animation. Therefore, in the choice of software, I plan to use Premiere for production.

Response:

I think of in the process of sampling is more common in the life of some items, such as desk lamp, bookshelf, etc., then I go to visit an exhibition about building, I think after to see some of the exhibits their arrangement can interpret my idea, so I took some photos about them for later production. In the process, I first found a picture about musical notation, and I overlapped the photograph and the musical notation to get the pitch matched with the height of objects and recorded the pitch in a note, then I played those pitches with music editing software and got a music file, finally put the file and the images I got to an editing software.

Reflection:

As to the response this time, I feel I am more concerned about the playability. Because at first I want to draw an animation based on a music to response the theme, but after thinking, I thought there has been a lot of the similar works, therefore, I want to try from another Angle to think about the theme of this week, so there is an idea about to link the height of the object with the pitch. I feel very happy about this experiment, although the final presentation of the work did not achieve the final effect, but I am very grateful that I got a new idea.

References:

The Barcode Player made by Ei Wada.

https://www.facebook.com/OpenReelEnsembleEiWada/videos/play-the-barcoder-fixed/114286746637959/

Downloads:

Download File: apd-week6-play-and-sounds.mp4