🎵 Collaborated with Ting Yang.
🎵 Link to play with the “Emotional Typewriter”
*Note: Also need to open Ableton to enjoy all sound effects
🎵 Inspired by the Sound Visualization project in ComLab, we created this emotional typewriter:
- Different letters in different formats sound different and carry different emotions.
- The typewriter can be used by anyone to express emotion by making sounds through typing.
- We also have “!” “?” “.” “/” corresponding to different sounds triggered.
- The melody you write/compose can be played again after you do it live!
🎵 For the performance, we have a script imagining a cat whose owner has been away from home for a few days writing a diary.
- Script:
Kitty’s Diary
First Event: Morning Surprise
!?!? woke no one oh my!
mom not here /// where she fly?
xxshoexx door? oh why?
Smellsmell xxx what’s this I spy?
Second Event: Sleepy and Bored
ZZZ…Room quiet zzz…no mom cooking filling pffff
ZZZ…vvv window nothing there
zzz…bored bored—when? back back
ZZZ…thought thought ZZZ
Third Event: A Happy Find
vov! vov! see yum see yum!
beneath cabinet treat treat! vov
no one stop no one stop
vov vov eee!
greattttt!
Fourth Event: Chased Off a Bird
VMV VMV Adhakdjj A bird dared on My Tree
Leap to Window Hissed low VMV.
Bird flew oFf quickly Afraid of me hphphphp
Our land DeFFFFenDed so bravely oioioioi!
Fifth Event: A Furious Night
moon moon napnapp in delight//
yayayaya! shadow ghost fright fright!
Heart boom boom FIGHT yayayaya
Oh wait! my shadow? no enemy in sight.
uwu uwu.
Sixth Event: Midnight Loneliness
night night deep deep nomom nomom
ini ini
mom gone too long too long
miss miss mom mom tone tone
no mom here feel so alone ini ini u
mom pillow sweet sweet
eyes close heart skipping beat beat
no mom incomplete incomplete ini ini…
- A screen recording of the performance:
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