What have I been doing over the last few weeks

Well I seem to have already neglected this blog site so think I best get my act together with it.

I have been recently working in MaxMSP building all the systems ready for the audio elements of the project. This has included;

Building simple, yet effective DSP effects, including filters, reverbs, delays and an interesting stutter patch which may not have any relevance but may create some interesting results. These are still in very basic form but are ready to be developed further once tests have been made with the samples which we are using which Jon and Tom have both been hard at work editing.

As well as the effects I have set up a variety of sample and loop players, some adding variation to pitch and volume everytime the sample is played back. This is a development of work I completed in previous university modules, as is quite a lot of work I have completed so far. In addition to this I want to create a system where effects parameters modulate themselves randomly for some ambient sounds. My vision of the ambiences is that they sit back and set the scene while more obvious sounds like birds singing become the interactive elements. This will be up for discussion on Monday when we meet again and hopefully have the samples fully integrated.

I've also been looking into ways in which the user may interact with the system and the Wii remote is becoming more and more promising. I've been in touch with a second year student with recommendation from Bal Singh but think I've found all the answers I've been looking for on Jonny Lee's website (http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/). The top video is a perfect starting point. Hopefully the techniques he uses can be translated into MaxMSP and the See Zen project quite seamlessly.

So far I have purchased one IR LED (you owe me 20p guys!) to run tests with the Wii Mote. If all runs smoothly I will go ahead and purchase an IR Illuminator (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=225027) or something similar which the remote can sit between.

I think thats all for now, I have received the Bridlington Samples from Jon which are superb and a great starting point to the implementation of the product.