Today turned out to be very productive. Greg, Nicola and myself had our 2nd meeting, which produced a large amount of ideas to work from for our collaboration project. I had initially been thinking about using the Nexus to record data of live movement to then produce a secondary visual of some sort, to run side by side. My other idea was to make a pop video but i hadn't really thought about how and I also had the theme of Little Red Riding Hood playing around in my head for possible use. I re-wrote the old fairytale in my own style, which can be read on Google docs here.
To get random ideas to work with, Greg Googled some words to see what came out. Nicola thought of 'cats eyes', which brought up a lot of different subjects including Anime. We got on to the topic of Anime porn and Japanese culture and how some of the girls are constantly re-inventing themselves such as Ganguro girls (as pictured above left). These girls seem to dress to rebel but do it to fit in, which contradicts the whole idea of rebelling. They wear dark foundation and highlight their eyes, mouth and nose and colour their hair. They perform dances that are done in unison in large groups called para para. All of these ideas lead us on to the pop video idea but to maybe do it in Japanese. Nicola and I went off to discuss this.
We finally came up with the idea to create our own unique pop song, which we could present within a video. We decided not to do it in Japanese, but in a sort of computer language generated through data, received from movement. The movement would come from the overall theme of the project, which comes from the Ganguro idea along with red riding hood and Anime characters. The R. R. Hood story fits in with the idea about the Ganguro girls wanting to re-invent themselves. It's a story about change and we could maybe base our characters on her in an Anime style and come up with our own image. We are unsure of what programs we would need but we want to collect data from the movement, which can be put through some sort of generator to create random words and audio, So everything comes from the same source and each element is related, therefore is the same thing but performed in different ways. We thought the Nexus would be able to pick up enough movement for us but after reading the handbook we realised the sensors only monitor skin temperature, blood flow, etc as it's a medical piece of equipment. After speaking to Greg and Jonathan about this, they suggested we use the midi suit. This will record movement and produce the data we require for our project.
So, the collaboration idea has started to come together in which we will attempt to devise a 'dialogue' to use in the form of lyrics and music, created from a dance sequence and presented as a pop video. The use of music programs such as cubase may be useful for auto-tuning to get a more conventional sound. For example, if we put the data through a program to create sound, to turn it into a pop tune, we will need to follow certain rules such as having it all in the same key. We will film our rehearsals, which will be shown as short clips on here and youtube.We now need to play around with the midi suit tomorrow and find the appropriate programs to utilise that data.
To get random ideas to work with, Greg Googled some words to see what came out. Nicola thought of 'cats eyes', which brought up a lot of different subjects including Anime. We got on to the topic of Anime porn and Japanese culture and how some of the girls are constantly re-inventing themselves such as Ganguro girls (as pictured above left). These girls seem to dress to rebel but do it to fit in, which contradicts the whole idea of rebelling. They wear dark foundation and highlight their eyes, mouth and nose and colour their hair. They perform dances that are done in unison in large groups called para para. All of these ideas lead us on to the pop video idea but to maybe do it in Japanese. Nicola and I went off to discuss this.
We finally came up with the idea to create our own unique pop song, which we could present within a video. We decided not to do it in Japanese, but in a sort of computer language generated through data, received from movement. The movement would come from the overall theme of the project, which comes from the Ganguro idea along with red riding hood and Anime characters. The R. R. Hood story fits in with the idea about the Ganguro girls wanting to re-invent themselves. It's a story about change and we could maybe base our characters on her in an Anime style and come up with our own image. We are unsure of what programs we would need but we want to collect data from the movement, which can be put through some sort of generator to create random words and audio, So everything comes from the same source and each element is related, therefore is the same thing but performed in different ways. We thought the Nexus would be able to pick up enough movement for us but after reading the handbook we realised the sensors only monitor skin temperature, blood flow, etc as it's a medical piece of equipment. After speaking to Greg and Jonathan about this, they suggested we use the midi suit. This will record movement and produce the data we require for our project.
So, the collaboration idea has started to come together in which we will attempt to devise a 'dialogue' to use in the form of lyrics and music, created from a dance sequence and presented as a pop video. The use of music programs such as cubase may be useful for auto-tuning to get a more conventional sound. For example, if we put the data through a program to create sound, to turn it into a pop tune, we will need to follow certain rules such as having it all in the same key. We will film our rehearsals, which will be shown as short clips on here and youtube.We now need to play around with the midi suit tomorrow and find the appropriate programs to utilise that data.
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