2. This is Your Music brings nothing
positive to the biological
Brain on survival of life
Bodily behaviors can
Music revolutionize our lifestyle
Music can promote social
bonding
Music is attracted to those
emotionally disconnected
from disorders
3. The Power of
Music
Music evokes a dynamism of
emotional responses
Emotional climaxes are
stimulated, similar to a novel
Music is versatile
Music an amplify or deepen emotion
Sound is transformed into music
through a variety of methods
4. Music, Mood, and
Marketing
Music has a powerful influence on the mood and offers
cognitive stimulus
Rhythm can dictate a series of emotion
Pitch
Scales
Texture
Volume
5. Listening to Cybernetics
Three main divisions in the types of experimentation in
electronic music
Human-Machine Integration
System Process Information
Control and Determinacy/Indeterminacy
6. The Architectural Relevance
of Gordon Pask
Gordon Pask: English scientist
and designer working in
cybernetics
“actions lead to impacts on the
environment that lead to sensing
and further modification of
actions.”
Created conversational and
teaching machines that use music
as the medium for interactions
with humans
Musicolour (1953)
Machine would learn from and
react to the musician it was
interacting with
7. Myron Kruegar: american
interactive computer artist
Environmenta Computer interfaces would
connect to the human body
l Technology and its senses
Computer Controlled
Responsive Environment
VideoPlace
Concept would eventually
influence mainstream
media
8. Interpreting Sounds and
Popular Music
How can we determine what sound or noise will be
significant enough to have the desired effect upon
the audience?
How is popular music determined and understood
by the majority of the population?
9. On Popular Music
Melody or lyric of a popular song are constructed with a
definite pattern
Standard or serious songs are free form with no structural
confinements
Popular song: Custom Built
Standard song: Freer play of imagination and interpretation
How do people determine what is popular?
10. Interpreting Sound
Finite area for sound interpretation and enjoyment
The ability to interpret sounds changes with age
Sound interpretation varies from person to person, and from
ear to ear within each person.
People vary in the ability to hear certain ranges in
sound, making it difficult to create a ubiquitous and
encompassing sound for an interactive piece.
A Test of Your Hearing
11. Making Motion Musical
Started with the Theremin
Integration of Midi
More dynamic sound
manipulation
Data conversion
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6btFObRRD9k
12. Composing Interactive
Music
Max Visual Programming
Tutorial-Style reading
Customized Functionality
Breaching Commercial
constraints
14. Questions
What makes people become indulged in such a public interactive
musical? What would make them stay or make them afraid to be
with that piece of work?
What do you think makes a song popular, and why do you think
that those reasons make it such? Why are these reasons the
immediate assessment of "cool"?
How much time would you spend interacting with a Passive
Installation? How much would you try and explore? Would not
being able to witness immediate changes from your interaction
hinder your involvement / interest in the piece?
