Interactive Noise

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Interactive Noise

• Theo Giovanopoulos
• Audio / Graphic Design / Web Development
• John Harper
• Action scripting / Graphic Design / Animation

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Interactive Noise

• Graphical and musical composing tool
• Graphically produces an impressive visual
  display.
• Icons
• Animations
• Color Scheme Switching
• Produces a user defined compilation of sounds
  which creates music.
• Multiple Sound Schemes
• Raindrops and other environmental
• Psychedelic

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Input

• Keyboard main source of user input
• Keys produce a different effect, both visually
  and audibly.
• Keyboard is played similarly to that of a piano
• Mouse secondary source of user input
• Mouse manipulates on screen animations.
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Audio

• A basic looping beat is played constantly
• Sound scheme is set to keys
• Each key plays a different sound.
• Example Rock Sound Scheme
• Keys A, S, D, F, G produce slightly different
  electric guitar riffs.
• Keys Q, W, E, R, T produce various electric base
  riffs.

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Results

• A player will create his or her own song
• Simultaneously the player will effortlessly
  create an abstract visual masterpiece.
• After or during creation of this piece, the user
  may explore it.
• Create with keyboard
• Explore with mouse

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Audience

• People interested in this game
• Music composers
• Beethoven
• Abstract artists
• People curious to explore a self created visual
  environment

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Suggestions For Game Play

• See the visual/audio results of typing
• Your name
• A poem
• A story
• Randomly selected keys
• Experiment with
• Speed of typing
• The visual environment you create

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Comparing Examples

• Rez
• Fantasia
• Rainbow Trip
• Blue Man Group
• The Sonification of Protein Data
• Mary Anne Clark
• (biologist)
• John Dunn
• (musician)

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Timeline

• 3/18 Gather sounds for interactive elements
• 3/25 Ten more interactive elements added
• 4/01 Ten more interactive elements added
• 4/08 ,F keys assigned sounds added
• 4/15 Completion of project and website