Re: demo of rhythm insfruments

Hi Xin Wei, great. I can break things and provide insight (and call it research) =)

 
~Kristi


From: Xin Wei Sha <xinwei.sha@asu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:07 AM
To: Garrett Laroy Johnson <gljohns6@asu.edu>, "Gabriella Isaac (Student)" <Gabriella.Isaac@asu.edu>
Cc: Christopher Roberts <cmrober2@asu.edu>, Kristi Garboushian <Kristi.garboushian@asu.edu>, "Varsha Iyengar (Student)" <Varsha.Iyengar@asu.edu>, "synthesis-dev@googlegroups.com" <synthesis-dev@googlegroups.com>, "post@synthesis.posthaven.com" <post@synthesis.posthaven.com>
Subject: demo of rhythm insfruments

Hi Gabby and Garrett , Great — let’s see what you’ve got !

Let me know when you’re around separately or together.   Todd and I are looking forward to see this.  I’ll see if I can swing by before Thurs.


PS Kristi — please feel welcome to chat w faculty and grads affiliated with these core SC projects to get to know what’s happening — you can play with what’s built, and break them.  If you provide insight it’s called research.  :)

On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Garrett Laroy Johnson <gljohns6@asu.edu> wrote:


Hi Xin Wei,

Unfortunately both Gabby and I have class tomorrow at nine thirty AM, but we are both interested in demoing some of our ongoing rhythm work (gabby with footfall, me with speech) 
With you soon. We are aiming to have the rhythm station set up and demoing by Thursday, but will be in tomorrow and Wednesday as well if you fancy checking in sooner. 


Garrett Laroy Johnson 

On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:48, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu> wrote:

Dear Tech Team + colleague faculty involved with Walton visit,


I could come to Stauffer at 9:30 tomorrow to check in Tech Team and faculty involved with the Walton visit.
I’d like to share and review the script that I’d like to supply the Dean for approval.

• Stauffer Flex spaces: DC Undergrad Diversity and creativity, refined by studio critique, scaled up
(Loren and David)
Student projects from studio courses
High school through professional post-grad

• Stauffer Lounge: Design for everyday life
Byron curation, overall works
it would be good to take some photos of this space working 
 for when I assemble the updated detailed script for Dean Tepper  tonite

• Matthews iStage: Fusion Art - Science
Chris Roberts overall curation, Pete Technical Direction
Art: Serra instruments sound and video (Todd, Julian)
Science: Experiential Climate Models (Josh, Connor, … )

Thanks all!
Xin Wei 

Email from Chris R.

Just to fill you in on Pete and my’s discussion regarding the physical setup. 


We believe given the spatial and material constraints of the room and our system that we can setup 2 immersive/interactive projection surfaces within the truss, and one more large projection outside of it. This will require buying ~300$ worth of cloth to project onto.

Our thinking is that we will have to project on the floor and one wall of the truss, with images that can fill up the whole “screen”. We also think we can mount a third projector to show data and code, that we will project onto a wall outside of the truss system. This is achievable with the technology we currently have, and will keep us within the spatial limitations of the room we were assigned.

Does this sound alright?

Pete, I realized when I was walking to the car that the lounge has an IR dragonfly, with an emitter (and I thought fish-eye lens) that we were using for ToC. Do you think they are still up there? Are they being used?

Chris

Kristi- please send to post haven


Christopher M Roberts
Assistant Research Professor
School of Arts, Media + Engineering
Arizona State University

Plans for the upcoming complex systems conference

First off, thank you very much for coming out today and helping us make plans for the upcoming complex systems conference.  

As XW has mentioned given the tight timeline we need to work in parallel with each other, not on top of each other. So I am sketching out a basic action plan to keep things running smoothly.

Can we please follow this plan of action for the next few days:

  1. I would like to divide the group up into three teams: 1) code (XW (lead), Josh,  Connor, Julian); 2) physical (Pete (lead), Megan, Zlaket); Concept (ChrisR (lead), Cooper, XW).
  2. Team Code. Can you start implementing your discussion today on phase changes etc. as soon as is convenient. Please use the full iStage system to start your implementation and do not wait for the truss to be completed. I wasn’t there for most of this, but I am hoping that this will involve working on instruments that will be interactive and projected on the floor and one “wall” of the truss. In the iStage this means use the floor and the scrim left from SERRA. We will optimize later. I believe we agreed on doing a demo on Monday, so let’s make that a target date for showing me and XW what you have accomplished
  3. Team Physical. Design, implement, and fine tune the truss system to the best of your ability with the resources we have at hand. At minimum this means installing a floor, speakers, projectors, IR emitter, cameras, lights and (I selfishly hope) a microphone into the truss system, along with a series of cables etc. Pete let’s you and I touch base about equipment in the morning sometime to make sure we have what we need.
  4. Team Conceptual. Cooper let’s you and I talk about unifying the whole experience, come up with some ideas and present them to XW for approval so that he can focus on helping Team Code. Our goal will be to put compelling aesthetics in the materials Team Code creates, which will be displayed by Team Physical’s apparatus. This means I will need you to come to the Monday demo (which is good with your schedule right?) and if you could be present at 3:30 tomorrow to shadow us in a second meeting that would be nice. Touch base with me tomorrow for more details and context.
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Thanks again

Chris

Christopher M Roberts
Assistant Research Professor
School of Arts, Media + Engineering
Arizona State University

Re: Serra flyers

Hi Xin Wei,

Okay, thanks!


~Kristi

Kristi Garboushian, MFA
Communications Program Coordinator

School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis Center
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Arizona State University
work: (480) 727-1161
cell: (480) 993-5405
kristi.garboushian@asu.edu


From: Xin Wei Sha <xinwei.sha@asu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 2:57 AM
To: Kristi Garboushian <Kristi.garboushian@asu.edu>
Cc: Matthew Briggs <matthewjbriggsis@gmail.com>, "post@synthesis.posthaven.com" <post@synthesis.posthaven.com>
Subject: Serra flyers

Hello Kristi!
Here are the low-resolution email flyer versions of the three Serra posters.
You have to print not these but the high res that you got via gmail.
Matt Briggs might know how to print if David is busy this morning.

Meeting notes from Wednesday, 9/10

Hello, All!

Here are the meeting notes from last week’s lighting workshop meeting. I’m also attaching the document.

Thank you,
Kristi

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Wednesday, 9/10/2014 Meeting Notes

 

Lighting Workshop (Fall 2014) Planning Session

(Attending: Xin Wei, Chris, Pete, Ozzie, Byron, Mike K., 3 students)

 

 

Preparing a presentation and a performance

It’s about rhythm, sounds and frequencies. XW will work with Chris and Omar about lighting. Also, some Grads should talk to Omar about what they want to do with the lights, what they want to achieve experientially.

 

Corpus that emits light by movement in a blackbox (front, backwards recognition, body architecture, synchronicity, shadows, reflection, casting) – question of self and other “when is this my body?” It’s not so clear anymore… delays in time… “is the shadow mine, or someone else’s?”

 

Temporal space

Kant – symmetry; left, right… the construction of identity. David Morris wrote an essay about phenomenology. Refer to that essay.

 

Auditory and optical space in time. If we have zero agency shadows….

 

Julian Stein’s Rhythm Toolkit

Record (Jitter code); temporal displacement (the shadow of a flickering light)

 

Chris: shadow and perception – silhouettes

 

We can get extremely precise in a small, 3-day exercise: easy to accomplish things with our kit. …by the 17th or 18th, then we can get our hands on the GitHub and laptops and access to really run the code in the blackbox. Work with the systems to modify cues….

 

September goals

Everyone show know the TML code, the video stuff and the GitHub.

 

Everyone should know Julian Stein (first point of contact – he’s the one-stop shop, the one responsible for the kit), Evan Montpellier and Navid Navab.

 

Have some creative exercises happening in the iStage… movement games, with tracking and non-tracking lights, etc. Then Xin Wei will talk with Pavan and his grad students.

 

(On Wednesdays from today on out, we’ll talk about the research questions.)


 

Synchronicity and “Entrainment”

 

Construct algorithms to make detectors (Pavan) – phenomenological, listen to the students (Nov) – make a rhythm toolkit. The first version is in the GitHub.

In March, work with Pavan and Byron to make those instruments – when John and Fiona come in March – “Heartbeat” – and we’ll have the instruments

 

Adrian Freed has a rich description of different kinds of synchronicity and temporal textures (CNMAT); co-mingling. We’ll try to get him here to do a workshop.

 

1). Rhythm is not based in symmetric regularity – being in sync didn’t require it at all. We’re trying to build computational algorithms…

Or it might be energy-transfer….

 

2). Rhythm doesn’t have to be one-dimensional. What does it mean? Take a video on the floor, put it in space.

 

Set up on the 13-14 Nov; start workshop on the 17th (Lighting Workshop)