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Urban Media Controller – A collaboration with Joshua Clayton and Russell de la Torre
An interface with which to conduct an urban symphony. samples from distinct locations around the city are captured and encapsulated with in a metal container used to control it’s volume.
Work Process:
Capturing the sounds of the city
Samples of Manhattan’s urban ambiance and street sounds were carefully collected, sorter through, cleaned and chopped into loop able bits. The minim sound library on processing was used to play the samples. The controller itself was made up of 4 metal pods, each containing an accelerometer board and an LED, and connected to an Arduino Mega. The readout off the accelerometer was then analyzed to detect two gestures: shaking, to increase level, and abrupt taping to reset the level back to zero.
Audio level readouts from processing would have controlled the brightness of the LED’s using the Messenger library, but that has unfortunately remained unimplemented.
Media Controller Code
Included are the code files for Arduino, Processing, and the unimplemented LED snippets of code for both Arduino and Processing