Synthesis

Hi All,
I will beam in online.
See you then!

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Peter Weisman <peter.weisman@asu.edu> wrote:
> Yes. Lets all meet at Brickyard.
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> Pete
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> Sent from my Galaxy S®III
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Garrett Laroy Johnson
> Date:06/26/2014 8:41 AM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Tain Barzso
> Cc: Peter Weisman , Sha Xin Wei , Katie Jung , Julian Stein , "Byron Lahey
> (Student)" , Assegid Kidane , Garrett Laroy Johnson , Kevin Klawinski ,
> "Matthew Briggs (Student)" , Xin Wei Sha , post@synthesis.posthaven.com
> Subject: Re: Brickyard media systems architecture; notes for Thursday BY
> checkin
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> 2.30 is good for me too. Meet at BY?
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> Garrett
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> On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Tain Barzso <Tain.Barzso@asu.edu> wrote:
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> 2:30 works for me, as well.
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> From: Peter Weisman <peter.weisman@asu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:07:34 -0700
> To: Sha Xin Wei <shaxinwei@gmail.com>, Peter Weisman
> <peter.weisman@asu.edu>, Katie Jung <katiejung1@gmail.com>, Julian Stein
> <julian.stein@gmail.com>, "Byron Lahey (Student)" <Byron.Lahey@asu.edu>,
> Assegid Kidane <Assegid.Kidane@asu.edu>, Tain Barzso <Tain.Barzso@asu.edu>,
> Garrett Laroy Johnson <gljohns6@asu.edu>, Kevin Klawinski
> <kklawins@asu.edu>, "Matthew Briggs (Student)" <Matthew.Briggs@asu.edu>
> Cc: Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu>, "post@synthesis.posthaven.com"
> <post@synthesis.posthaven.com>
> Subject: RE: Brickyard media systems architecture; notes for Thursday BY
> checkin
>
> I am free at 2:30pm AZ time on Thursday.  Can we all meet then?
>
> Pete
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy S®III
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Sha Xin Wei
> Date:06/25/2014 8:14 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Peter Weisman , Katie Jung , Julian Stein , "Byron Lahey (Student)" ,
> Assegid Kidane , Tain Barzso , Garrett Laroy Johnson , Kevin Klawinski ,
> "Matthew Briggs (Student)"
> Cc: Xin Wei Sha , post@synthesis.posthaven.com
> Subject: Brickyard media systems architecture; notes for Thursday BY checkin
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> This note is primarily about media systems, but should connect with the
> physical interior design, furniture and lighting etc.
>
> Thanks Pete for the proposed media systems architecture summary.  I started
> to edit the doc but then bogged down because the architecture was
> computer-centric, and it’s clearer as a diagram.
>
> Instead of designing around the 2 Mac Minis and the Mac Pro computers I’d
> like to design the architecture around relatively autonomous i/o devices :
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> Effectively a network of:
> Lamps (for now addressed via DMX dimmers), floor and desk lamps as needed to
> provide comfortable lighting
> 5 Wifi GoPro audio-video cameras (3 in BY, 1 Stauffer, 1 iStage)
> xOSC-connected sensors and stepper motors,  ask Byron
> 1 black Mac Pro on internet switch
> processing video streams, e.g. extracting video feature emitted in OSC
> 1 Mac Minis on internet switch
> running lighting master control Max patch, ozone media state engine (later)
> 1 Mac Mini on internet switch
> processing audio, e.g. extracting audio features emitted in OSC
> 1 iPad running Ozone control panel under Mira
> 1 Internet switch in Synthesis incubator room for drop-in laptop processing
> 8 x transducers (or Genelecs — distinct from use in lab or iStage, I prefer
> not to have “visible” speaker boxes or projectors in BY — perhaps flown in
> corners or inserted inside Kevin’s boxes, but not on tables or the floor )
>
> The designer-inhabitants should be able to physically move the lamps and
> GoPros and stepper motor’ed objects around the room, replugging into few
> cabled interface devices (dimmer boxes) as necessary.
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> Do the GoPro’s have audio in?   Can we run contact or boundary or air mic
> into one ?
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> We could run ethernet from our 3 computers to the nearest wall ethernet
> port?
>
> Drop-in researchers should be able to receive via OSC whatever sensor data
> streams (e.g. video and audio feature streams cooked by the fixed black
> MacPro and audio Mini)
> and also emit audio / video / control OSC into this BY network.
>
> DITTO iStage.
>
> Can we organize an architecture session Thursday sometime ?
> I’m sorry since I have to get my mother into post-accident care here in
> Washington DC I don’t know when I’ll be free.
>
> Perhaps Thursday sometime between 2 and 5 PM Phoenix?  I will make myself
> available for this because I’d like to take up a more active role now thanks
> to your smart work.
>
> Looking forward to it!
> Xin Wei
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> PS. Please let’s email our design-build to post@synthesis.posthaven.com  so
> we can capture the design process and build on accumulated knowledge in
> http://synthesis.posthaven.com
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> Sha Xin Wei
> Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering • Herberger
> Institute for Design and the Arts / Director • Synthesis / ASU
> Founding Director, Topological Media Lab / topologicalmedialab.net/  /
> skype: shaxinwei / +1-650-815-9962
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