Precedence Studies

This is a few samples of virtual instruments. By using this application users can play piano, organ,saxophone,flute, guitar and a few more.




This is the samples of virtual piano.

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Virtual Piano This application can be use as a virtual piano for all you MIDI devices, such as your Sound Card or another MIDI tone generator. Almost every MIDI parameter can be change via the user interface. Virtual Piano is optimized for use with Yamaha Synthesizers, but should have no problem with other ones. This project is a good start for people who want to learn more about MIDI programming under Windows." http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/virtual_piano.html

Reference
software- http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/

Critique: 2 Research and Analysis

Research on technical - Hardware/Software

Hardware

• Web Camera/Video Camera
• 2 PC for processing data or information that have receive from the application.
• Transparent Glass
• Wood for create a box/station
• Projector
• Speaker
  
• Microphone

Software

• Flash CS3
  
• Zone Trigger
• Pablo
  

Zone Trigger saves you time, money and effort:

• No technical skills required,no development time needed
• No costly or complicated custom hardware to install
• Technical support and advice to get your projects done
• One-stop solution for most interaction and automation scenarios.

More information related to zone trigger please refer to zone trigger

Design Approach

The Box that use to hold the glass will be cover by cloth that have Thailand traditional art/ painting like:






Thai Ranard is a tradisional music instrument. So the design for the layout/appearance need to be unique and suit with concept (Traditional).

Critical Commentaries

Youth VS Traditional Instrument

Malaysian youth behavior toward new media instruments and old instrument.

Before we go to the main idea, let introduce some instrument that have been used in Malaysia. Those traditional instrument have different name at different country. For example Percussion
Percussion includes things that are struck, scraped, rubbed, shaken, twirled , whipped, etc. The limits to percussion are those of the human imagination. The following percussion instruments are found on this site:

Aslatua-Ghana
Balofon-West Africa
Changgo-Korea
Deerskin Drum-N.America
Kiromboi-Sarawak
Udu-Nigeria

Refer to "http://www.asza.com/ihm.shtml

Jaw Harps or Jews Harps

Jaw harps or jew’s harp are found in many cultures around the world, and were a popular 'personal' instrument, in that they could be carried in a pocket easily and played whenever the player has an inkling for music. Most jaw harps are very quiet instruments played alone or in duets, however some European metal jaw harps are made very loud to be played in ensembles with other instruments. Although many sources claim that the term Jews harp has no racial connotations, in certain regions it did carry racial connotations, so this site will use the term jaw harp. Included are mostly bamboo or palm leaf instruments not found elsewhere on the web, and some very rare instruments collected throughout Asia. There are two main categories to these jaw harps, those that are activated by plucking the tongue or lamella, and those that are tension harps activated by pulling a string. In many cases both of these types can be found in the same region, or within close proximity to each other. The following jaw harps are found on this site:

Ankuoc - Kampuchea
Ata - Thailand
Bungkau - Sabah
Dan Moi - Vietnam
Genggong - Bali
Gerudeng - Sarawak
Giwong- Philippines
Rangguin - Malaysia

Refer to "http://www.asza.com/ihm.shtml"

The musical instruments of peninsular Malaysia can be classified into 4 categories. Aerofons are wind instruments. Cordofons are stringed instruments which are either plucked or bowed. Idiofons are percussive instruments which are struck or shaken. Membranofons, the largest group, are the drums and get their name from the skin or membrane which is stretched over the instrument to produce its sound when struck. For example : Serunai: The end-blown pipe is ubiquitous in Asia. It is believed to have originated from Palestine in the Middle East sometime during the 2nd century. It is a double reed instrument varying in length from 12 to 18 inches, and constructed from a variety of wood such as batang lada, lemab and nangka. Its three main parts are the kepala (head), batang (stem) and pipit (mouth piece). The instrument’s body is adorned with intricate carvings and painted in red, green, gold and black.

When we talk about Traditional Instrument to the youth. The first thing that come to their mind is "Traditional Instrument is for old generation and it outdated" and don't even know the name of those traditional instrument . Youth generation have this kind of thinking is logic because they lack of experience toward traditional instrument. Some of the youth never expose to traditional music instrument.

Youth more prefer music like Hip-Hop and not traditional music that create by traditional instrument. The Europe culture already effect youths in Malaysia or another country like Thailand or Korean. In the future Traditional Music Instrument wont be able to hear by youth generation if hip-hop phenomena continues like this in our culture.

Reference :
http://pianoshortcuts.blogspot.com/

Proposal 3

Knowing

Background
Touching the items to predict the future of the item and your.

Problem Identification

Ideation or Concept
Using the the concept from the movie call "KNOWING 2009"director Alex Proyas.Let the user see the future of themself and the items that they gonna touch.


Aim and Objectives
to give feel the taste of knowing future.
to give user enjoys and experience with the application.

Motivation
I want to create an installation that let people know more about interactive art/ installation.

Review, Analysis and Precedence Studies
Inspired by the movie name KNOWING 2009

Proposal 2

Water Color Paint

Background
"Can produce breathtaking image with just a few brief strokes and color."ANGELA GAIR. With different palette with different feeling to user. For example Viridian-this deep,rich green retains its brilliance even in mixes. Viridian ideal for cooling reds and also mixes well with burnt sienna to create a useful shadow colour.

Problem Identification

Ideation or Concept
Using the concept of water colour to produce a nice digital format water colour paint. With a few stroke and color to produce picture.


Aim and Objectives
to give user to produce a water colour paint without dirty their hand.
to give user feel a different way/experience of drawing.

Motivation
I want to create an installation that let people more familiar with water colour paint.

Review, Analysis and Precedence Studies
Inspired by the book name WATERCOLOUR by ANGELA GAIR

Proposal 1

Virtual Ranard (Thai Instrument)

"Ranard is one of the famous Thailand music instrument. Thai Classic Music can be classified into 4 categories.

• Instruments that plays with fingers
• Instruments that plays with bowes
• Instruments that plays by beating
• Instruments that plays with blower

The Thai Traditional Music Ensembles can be classified into 3 categories.

1. Piphat Ensemble.

Piphat Ensemble with hard sticks. Consist of Pi (Thai Oboe), Ranard Taom, Kong

Wong, Ching (Small hard cymbals), Klong (Drum). This band is usually play outdoor because Ranard is specially use hard sticks to play for loud noise.

Piphat Ensemble with feeble sticks. This band has the instruments as the Piphat Ensemble with hard sticks. But use Klui instead of Pi and add Saw Aou. When the player use feeble sticks with Ranard, it makes delightnes and it both suitable for indoor. We usually plays in special occasions or funeral.

Piphat Maun Ensemble. Use the instruments as aforementioned ensembles but use Pi Maun (Peguan Oboe) instead of Pi Zthai Oboe) and add Maun Kong (Peguan Drum) and seven Pung Mangs. This band usually plays for the funeral.

2. Thai String Ensemble is consist or Klui (Recd), Saw Sam Sai (Bowed lute), Saw Duang, Saw Aou, Ton, Ranard, Ching and charb

3. Mahori Ensemble. This band is united by the main instruments from Piphat Ensemble (Use Ranard Taom} Khong) and the instruments from Thai String Ensemble become one. The band X usually plays in special occasions." http://home.iirt.net/~rtab/thai_music_en.html

The Youth Music Box

The Youth Music Box by silentstudios

The aim of the Youth Music Box is to allow people of any musical ability to have a hands-on music making experience using cutting-edge digital equipment and, in particular, to inspire more children and young people to get involved in music-making. Inside is a musical console table that allows groups of up to four ‘players’ to create music together using cutting-edge technology interfaces linked to real instruments. They will have the choice of four instruments: two Edirol MIDI keyboards (one for vocals and the other for melody) a Roland TD-9K drumkit, and a Denon 3700S digi-media turntable, which will create and record the track. Players have a choice of six musical styles: reggae, drum and bass, urban, afro beat, classical and disco/electro. After selecting a sample track to keep the beat and play along to, there will be a chance to rehearse before the final recording. Behind the scenes, two technicians in the control room will deploy professional video mixing facilities from Edirol and digital audio controls in the shape of the RSS V-Mixing system. Inside the Box there are remotely-operated cameras built in, ready to film the creative process. Edirol’s V-8 vision mixer will be used to combine these camera feeds with graphics to create a finished video recording. "pixelsumo"

Evoke

Evoke is a specially commissioned project for Illuminating York 2007 in northern England.
Evoke is a massive animated projection that lights up the facade of York Minster in response to the public, who use their own voices to "evoke" colourful light patterns that emerge at the building's foundations and soar up towards the sky, giving the surface a magical feeling as it melts with colour.

The patterns of Evoke are generated in realtime by the words, sounds, music and noises produced collectively by the public, determined by their particular voice characteristics. The colors will skim the surface of the room.

Problem:

• Cost
• Technical Setup

Aim & Objectives:

• The evoke concept will be modified to fit it in a room /smaller space.
• To make a mini version of Evoke.
• To create a fantastic visual and give user new experience

Concept:

• Colorful and Fantastic Visual

Software

Pcocessing
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production.
It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.
Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. To contribute to the project's development, please visit http://dev.processing.org/, which includes bug tracking and instructions for building the code, downloading the source, and creating libraries and tools.
Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Refer to - http://www.processing.org
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