In this example I used a sound file that was of people in crowded spaces to help in creating the city soundscape for our project. I used the EQ on this soundscape to bring out more of the vocals in the soundscape but I wasnât so impressed with the outcome because it sounded like the EQ quieted down the sound of the file overall and that wasnât what I was going for. Even with the sound clip on Ableton being at itâs loudest there still wasnât any satisfaction with the result.Â
The EQ is used to cancel out frequencies in which are in the zone that you want it to come from. You are able to edit and modify this by moving the points around as seen in the graph below. You will be able to hear at the middle of the soundscape two beeps that represent the break between the soundscape with the EQ effect (first one playing) and then a soundscape with no effects added (second one playing). I found that the soundscape with no effects added in the background had more of a city environment compared to the first one playing. Reiterating my point stated before about how the EQ quieted the background sound and it didnât sound as busy. I wonder from this lesson learnt if I shouldnât add EQ in any of my soundscapes? Would it affect the future oneâs I plan to edit, I think maybe.Â
This video is of one of the art installations at ST Pauls Gallery. We took this as inspiration for our own art installation for Space, Image and Sound for the nature soundscape of our project. The setup of this art installation was similar to ours, as it had a video playing on screen with background soundscapes that ultimately created an environmental and seasonal feel.Â
Digifab project - Rotating Cupcake stand for my events
This video is basically one of me holding the stand in order for it to move there had to be a stationary platform and so my hand held the bottom plate in place.Â
Today myself and Gayle has sort of split from Zane and Megan but we still keep in contact. My experience in having three briefs was very overwhelming as we had to cater to all of them while trying to retain everyoneâs interest. We could always have found other ways through research and interrogation of all three briefs however during our discussion yesterday I realized that I shouldnât shy away from taking on a topic which involved those with a disability. The reason why I turned away from this idea in the first place was because it would be difficult to find the correct target audience let alone preform play testing as there are a lot of health and issues that come with this. From my research however, its shown me that the more people shy away from helping the less fortunate then no one is really going to solve the problems which they are facing alone. Myself and Gayle are afraid of taking this path as there are a lot of things we are uncertain about but we owe it to ourselves to at least try.
Initially I wanted to work on a project that served a purpose. Being in Sangeetaâs stream allowed me to fulfill that goal whist incorporating it into my final project. I joined with Gayle because we wanted to do something that was purposeful and she was apart of Donnaâs stream and so it worked as we will come in on Wednesdayâs and have our streams on at the same time. Our ideas ranged from creating a brief in alliance with a brief a company wanted us to do. The problem we found with this however, was that it was sort of limiting us from being experimental in the area of design and technological designs because we wanted to look into using our digital fabrication knowledge into our project.Â
Gayle then found team members Megan and Zane on the Thursday stream and had a conversation about things in which they were interested in doing. I was really happy with our very first meeting we had as we had some common interest. Dating back to my initial idea last semester at the beginning of the term I wanted to look into doing some form of interactive musical project that allows people with disabilities to make their own music. Parts of this idea came from my volunteer work I do where the young peopleâs moodâs change as soon as music is turned up. I loved their reaction towards music and how it was a form of an icebreaker and time to be free and relaxed. Megan explained that she and Zane wanted to look into creating their own instrument but not knowing why. My idea of making it accessible for people who canât physically play with instruments seemed to fit that issue. We were happy with this idea of making an instrument that was able to be a tool that people with disabilities can access. My inspiration came from the controller made by Microsoft for those with a disability and seeing the positive results it has on young people as they feel âinclusiveâ.
Days passed and we realized while researching some implications which would become a really difficult task to do in the future. What I realized while researching was the difficulty of getting time to interview people with disabilities as there are a lot of health and safety cautions that need to be addressed beforehand and also after. Another difficulty I found with our project was not being able to target the correct people on showcase and meaning that we wonât get the vital feedback we need for our project.Â
To fix this problem we as a group thought about expanding our target audience while keeping people with disabilities apart of it. The reason being was because we wanted to get as much feedback from our target audience and we found that keeping our target audience to those with a disability limited us as for showcase and figured that it would be difficult to find as many to get an overall result that was relevant to everyone. We could have possibly gotten information from community groups such as âStarJamâ and also âConnectâ but there are a lot of health and safety things weâd need to do before hand whereas if we were to interview students there would be less of a hassle. We are still going to keep people with a disability in our target audience but we will have also students who donât know how to play and instrument but wish to do so and through our product.
Our product we are still unsure of as we are still experimenting and finding new things everyday to support âwhyâ we are doing what we are doing. While having a short discussion with Clint today it got us thinking about our product and it seemed like we wanted to do something physical. He gave us some good advice which was to think about drawing it on a piece of paper which is what Gayle will do. As for me Charles asked us to make a survey to inform our practice and so that is what I will be working on. As time progresses we are still trying to find where our group sits and what roles each person will play. As of today me and Gayle are still bringing the âwhyâ into our group while Zane and Megan are more into the experimental side of things. Tomorrow we are planning on honing down on our ideas while also setting a day we can all meet twice a week as we have found with our different streams and timetables it is difficult to meet eye to eye to discuss our project. Â
Below is an image of our different briefs/streams and our initial ideas. The main goal of this chart was to try and find a common interest between all our initial ideas. The one idea which I thought could fit all areas was the watch which Gayle talked about. As it has âTech for goodâ brief creating a project that goes towards a good cause and serves a purpose while also fitting the âSpace + Soundâ brief where they are experimenting with sound and visuals and so the visuals will be whats seen on the watch and the sound will be playing through the thumps that interact with your hand. The idea of her watch was designed for deaf people that could hear/feel sentences through the thumps on your hand. Depending on how many times or where the thump is made it makes up a sentence which will be coded for a specific word or sentence that the person will learn. This idea is really cool because it could combine all three but Iâm worried that it wonât combine more of Zane and Megan's brief which is another struggle Iâve picked up on while doing this exercise. The struggle was trying to find a correlation from all three areaâs which we would all invest in. There were areas where we couldnât agree on and so it was difficult finding that middle ground for all of us.Â
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