Idea 1: Integrated Art (Gesture and Voice control Painting)
Target group: art-lovers, creative musicians, painters, and dancing artists
This project stems from my random thoughts about whether different arts can be related and communicated with each other. Is that possible for a single individual to simultaneously use different art techniques to create a brand new piece of art? Then, I thought of the project one of my friends once made, the rescuing arm game made by Lydia Yan. I thought it might be possible for a dancer to draw a painting with the use of some sensors putting on her body to detect her body movements. Also, since I am a good singer but am so poor at drawing, I always wonder if I can draw something beautiful with my singing. Therefore, I want the tone of sounds to determine the color of the painting. I thought this would be so unrealistic for me to achieve, however, the video showed in class gave me insights and encouragement of finishing that. The videos show that people can play with Processing and Arduino by the shadow of the body project on the canvas and also can use eyeballs to draw the picture. We want to create a project which combines dancing, music, and painting together. It allows participants to draw the shapes and lines by their gesture and color the picture by the frequency of the voice. The target groups of this project are creative musicians, painters, and dancing artists.
Idea 2: Custom Alphabet Sheet Music
Target group: People who want to play music but lack music knowledge, NGOs
This project is inspired by German Artist Pablo Paredes’s “Stay Home” project. In the project, he used the shapes of 8 letters to create a piece of music. The music is amazing and warm for it reminds people to stay home during the COVID-19 epidemic. We found this project really significant to society and meaningful, therefore, we would like to base on this project, develop it, and integrate our own views about COVID-19 into our project. In the project, users may be able to express what they want to say with this project and turn those words into music.
For the letter input part, we want to use different laser-cut woods and pressure sensors connect with Arduino. For the music score part, we want to use the Processing of the animation of the letter score and control the music and music effect technique by connecting with Arduino. We want to use this project to make people who want to play music but has a lack of music knowledge to play their own customized music and also this project can be used by healthy organizations or other NGOs who want to appeal to the public to take some actions by the music. Because it’s interesting that when you hear the music by the shapes of letters, it will remain deeply in your mind. So this project has a pretty great advocacy function.
Idea 3: Covid-19 Music&Animation Disinfecting System
Target group: Household residents
It’s a household use system which can make people happily disinfect themselves after returning home. This project is inspired by the smart restroom system which I mentioned in my final preparatory blog. The smart restroom system allows people to play small games while using the toilet. In our project, It’s a semi-game device that can help people to clean and disinfect before entering the room in COVID-19 situation through Arduino and Processing. We will use Arduino to create devices that can automatically open and close the lid of the trash can, and automatically squeeze the bottle of disinfectant and hand sanitizer. The devices will be used through the ultrasonic sensor to measure the distance between the human hand and become automatic. At the same time, we will connect these devices to Processing. By using Processing, we can create animations to remind people to use the devices in sequence when they enter the room. Each time a step is completed, the Processing animation will switch to a reminder of the next step. And it will be accompanied by music that will change from happy to sad if the cleaning and the disinfecting process is not done in order or missing. We also want to connect a led cube that can show the animation of the process in a three-dimensional way, such as the animation of hand sanitizer dripping or the animation of disinfectant spraying. The completion of the action can be detected by a photoresistor. When the participants use hands to block the photoresistor on the devices, it means they have used these devices already.
Such projects are also relatively educational because they can remind people to disinfect themselves when they enter the home and play a role in preventing the virus during the COVID-19 epidemic. The animation and music reminders are also interesting because they make participants want to experience the whole disinfection process and encourage them to disinfect self-consciously when entering the room.
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