First steps with Arduino or How to make a cheap, quick, awful synth!

This week I attempted to make the most basic synthesizer using the arduino, some potentiometers and a piezo. So heres the setup,

I put the three potentiometers in a circuit, with a ground and power supply. Then on a separate circuit we plug in a piezo. Each potentiometer is connected to an analog input so the values can be read, and the piezo is connected to a digital pin.

This is basically an upgrade and mish-mash of a few basic examples on potentiometers (http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput) and on tones (http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Tone). The piezo generating tones depending on the values given by the potentiometers.




For this synth, as shown in the video, one potentiometer controls frequency (Hz), one duration of tone, and the other the frequency (time) of the tones. It makes a pretty horrible little sound, so I definitely wouldn't watch the whole minute of this video, but I am pretty impressed by how quick this sort of project can be put together.





Code @ http://experiments-in-sound-and-vision.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-steps-with-arduino-or-how-to-make.html

Game Tour - Test 1: Greenwich 27 Feb

Hi everyone,

Here is a link to the blog where I am working on my final project of game-tours... Last week I made the first test for my final project, doing the Game-Tour in Greenwich, London.

You can visit this link to see photos and to understand how the project worked.

I'll improve some interface and narrative elements for the final project.

Brighton mobile site is now working

Hello, I fixed my problem with Google maps in my mobile site using Google Code (thanks to my beloved wife).
Now the site is online with a map, clock, tweets about the city, your tweets and a Google news widget about Brighton. Please, go to: http://elmundialista.cl/gobuk

Another interesting event - InterMus group

Hi everyone

We will be having a seminar on Monday 15th March, 4pm-5.30, in the Russell Building (room 12). There will be two talks, one from Frauke Behrendt (Media) and one from Paola Cannas (Music). All welcome.

Frauke Behrendt will be speaking on her work with sound-based creative use of mobile technology. Her talk is titled "A Taxonomy of Mobile Sound Art".

Paola Cannas's talk: "Technologies and performance: a vibrant interaction" is a reflection on her experiences, as a musicologist, with tools developed through interdisciplinary research.

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InterMus stands for Interdisciplinary Music/Sound Research Seminars. These seminars are for anyone interested in music research from a variety of different disciplines. Including (but not restricted to) Music, Music Informatics, Psychology, Media and Film, Neuroscience, Creative Systems, Informatics, Music Education, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Acoustics.

If you are interested in these seminars please do join our mailing list at https://lists.sussex.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/intermus. Usually we will use the intermus mailing list to announce seminars and send out further details such as abstracts for talks etc.

Please feel free to pass this email on to anyone who you think may be interested.

Anna Jordanous and Chris Kiefer
Music Informatics

Interesting events

Hi guys,

Just to let you know about this event - should be interesting ....

NATIONAL TESTING GROUNDS OF LIVE ART

Live Art and Music Event

Mikahil Karikis, Mitch & Parry, Kristin Sherman, Dori Deng and Meta Drcar

Saturday 13th March 2010

7:00pm - 10:00pm

£4

Boundaries, Fluidity and Dislocations are the focus for the programme, the commissioned artists explicitly exploring ideas around liminal access and departures: the boundaries of the body - and the distance between bodies, the exploration of sound and the confinements of our physicality, the limitations of the gallery space, of the self, of the other, of the individual and of group migrations in our geography, identities and disruption across the artistic and the non artistic.

For this Testing Grounds event Mikhail Karikis explores parallels between the nature of the medium of sound and politics of migration; thinking of sound as a perpetual immigrant, always travelling away from its place and material of origin, penetrating invisibly into spaces where it may not be welcome.

Kristin Sherman explores structures of power made manifest through intricate performance machines. Her work for Testing Grounds paints a dark and humorous portrayal of power and control, a system made of bodies, where each actor monitors the other. Taken to extremes, the work questions and challenges our notions of freedom.

Mitch & Parry's new working project examines the landscape of the body as a space for collecting and exhibiting the stains and marks of loss, love and labour, by developing their work of creating external discourse with internal bodily fluid - creating a tension between provoking and inviting the spectator.

Dori Deng and Meta Drcar 's Measuring series is a meditation on relations between space and different medias including the body, visuals and sound. The action of measuring is presented physically, but also through mathematical connections, of musical rhythm and time in order to change the dimension and the proportion of the gallery space, twisting our assumption or expectation of a given context.

Testing Grounds hopes to contribute to the richness of the South East region's Live Art scene by creating a place where audiences can glimpse the newest work, be provoked, discuss new ideas and socialise. This event is co-curated with Permanent, and supported by the Lighthouse and funded by Arts Council England South East.

www.testinggrounds.org.uk

PERMANENT 20 Bedford Place, Brighton, BN1 2PT

Thinking about Mobile and Locative Media

... I think that it is more than media, than medium, it is part of our everyday life and it's really changing it.... Particularly I like the idea of mobile technology as a learning tool, playful tool, a medium to get in touch and to understand and live the city and our everyday life in a different and maybe better way....

location&relation

hello everyone, last week i have collected some information of friends location in brighton. i asked them to mark their living location at google map by using the same account.

Then i made a graphic which has some spots are just corresponding the exact location on google map. and the lines between the spots is referring to the relations between them, in other words, i know them all, but also some of them know each other. and if some people are just in a round circle, which they all know each other. So far i just done these...i feel headache now..mmmm .. and if anyone has any ideas to help me develop it further, im very thankful...