April '18
Initial idea:
- Multiple sets of Teensy + sensors.
- Distributed performance.
- Teensy, sensors, speakers: floor.
- Audience: circular configuration
[Produktionstudio, 23_04_18]
[EG]
I want to make a small gadget for like 30 people, a little thing that you can tape to your cheek or something.
[HHR]
Is there a reason they need to have the same set of sensors on them?
[DP]
It could be a sort of distributed body, shared among people.
[EG]
Yeah, that could be interesting. I think it would make people less nervous, because it becomes more distributed evenly and maybe you would forget about your sensor a bit more if it wasn’t so in your face. Because if you have your whole body rigged up with sensors, I couldn’t see how people would feel comfortable in the room or be capable of relaxing. Cause it would be like: oh, I hope I don’t sit on this 20 dollar thing. Whereas if you just have one thing to take care of, it’s like a lot more manageable as an audience member. I mean, I think it has to be part of it. If I really strap you in and turn you into a little cyborg for the night, then it could be part of it. Some people fetishize this kind of ‘I am a robot’ thing. But I don’t know, I’m also just thinking that that wouldn’t last so long and after 10 minutes you just want to get out of your sweaty sensor.
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So after I found something mostly interesting I moved it over to Teensy to translate in their Audio library web interface to just set up the tools that I would like to manipulate in the code
After this you build your looping and reference behaviours in C/C++ in the Arduino IDE. This step as well sometimes reveals surprises after you compile onto the hardware system...but there's nothing more satisfying to me then the reliability and amazement when I plug in a power supply and the hardware does its thing.
Workflow
[mail, 29_06_18]
[EG]
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May '18
Intermediate:
- 2 sets of Teensy + sensors.
- Sound installation.
- Teensy, sensors, speakers: floor.
- Visitors: lying on the floor, head to head.
[Experimentalstudio, 22_05_18]
[EG]
I made this little drawing. I was thinking about booking it like a session or something like that, where two people can agree to like a 15 minutes period where they just chill out and compare their two biosignals, because I hate the idea of the installation just sitting there and people coming in or not. I think they will be both tuned slightly differently, because skin conductivity levels are different from people: some people are just more sweaty than others. So they will be tuned differently, and then it will just be a little duet for 15 minutes. And I think it’s important that you are lying on the ground, because it’s just somehow more medical, or embodied. If you just sit down on a chair and hook yourself in is just a different posture.
[HHR]
So you are not supposed to have eye contact with the other person and you just hear the other person through the sound, right?
[EG]
I think that when you are lying on the ground this way with your head beside another person there’s enough of a connection there, you don’t need to stare at them in the eye.
And then sensors go here. And the speakers aim this way, so there’s some kind of spatiality I suppose. I also wasn’t really sure, because I was like: should the speaker go all the way down to the foot of these people? But I kind of like it better at the heads I think. Because I like this sort of swirly picture.
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