the future is now..no NoW..wait...NOW

ahh good ole room 105. or maybe the tropical desert of 105?

I've been working on the visuals for the past few days, making some cool particle emitter thinggies in the program Motion.
They files are too big and cause a great lag when Processing is running them.
However, my matrix grid is working and it's playing little movie clips on top of the big clips, which is tres bien, oui oui.

Now, the biggest problem I have left is syncing up the audio with the little video sparks.
You see, because the audio is all processed at once, then played, it's hard to process it "real time" and trigger the movies on account of an audio sound.
Currently trying to sync the video enough within itself to match up to the audio- this is very pertinent to getting my point across, but if it ends up not syncing exactly that will be alright. Just having it working the way it is now already enriches my audio lots and lots.

Audio is cool. I'm happy about it. Minus maybe the exact instruments to use. It's on a drum mix now, I'll add some instrumentals. If you have any suggestions, shoot.
Tried to multi channel it today in room 117 but realized there is no point since my panning is already working. I think I will resist the temptation to be a manual "mixer" and pretend I'm turn-tabling mixing my own genes, live. ow ow.

Almost Disappointment: I will just not have enough time to make an elaborate interface. Since my project made a progressive appearance into the physical realm outside of the computer, my interface slowly melted into the endless space which the audio and video created. Even though I am currently disappointed that direct interaction and a sort of "systems art" will not be created obviously, I am satisfied with the space emerging from its core, as a more personal role is sculpted in the viewer who is subjectively experiencing this environment as well as themselves within it.

I'm SO stoked to see everyone's project.
Luck yall.

Progression. Progressions. some ?s too.

Audio part is just about done.
My only decision is in which batch of instruments to choose/how to choose them, as this new program has many, many sounds of which lots sound especially great when the temp raises.
If you have any suggestions for this after listening to my piece, do tell :)
Oh yeah and I'm having it play a special way...you'll see...in room 117! [still awaiting reply for that though...]

Click Me to Hear

new features:
*instrument variations [will work on taking out the obvious instrumentals]
*circle of fifths changes ever 10 base pairs, at random [not from lower to bottom octave, too boring]
*every three [i.e. amino acids] vary in tempo]
**note: there will be two strings paying, of different instruments [[will def. spice this up]

As of right now, the program picks at random one of 127 different instruments.
I wanted to pick out the ones that do not sound like instruments you can specifically identify and have it pick at random from those, although having an underlaying order in this could be beneficial as well.

Now, the visual part.
After my prototype, I realized that having my project be implemented via the internet, to the "global' community, was not necessarily the best way to activate the thoughts I wanted within my audience and make the statement/ visuals really be felt, so I've done some thinking.

I am now working on implementing a visual which could be projected on to a screen/ wall which would interact with the viewer.
The simple version would be a human shape with different colored lights pulsing in parts of the body of the human figure, corresponding to the music, while around it would be a star-trek-y flying through the galaxy constantly moving image to give a sense of infinity and that macro-ness. This would nicely juxtapose to the little lights pulsing frantically within the body, representing where all the chromosomes are coding and making this visible overall structure of a human...something looking like so:



The more complicated version depending on time [and if not, will be implemented in the future] would be a feature that would only activate these moving lights when a person walked in front of the screen, only on them, wherever the would be moving. I'm looking into this briefly to see if it is possible, if any of you have ideas about this, do tell as well :)

examples along the lines...:





The visual aspect is very important, although I think with the new atmosphere of the it, the music could stand all on its own; this is the point I would like to get it to by Thursday . Having it play in a room and not some wimpy speakers over the internet with bad connection is a lot stronger, the audience is fully enveloped by the atmosphere of creation...

Thanks to all the commenteurs!
It's been nice hearing your thoughts on this crazy project of mine, it's slowly...becoming and your words give its existence spice.

Official prototype- Y Chromosome in C Major

This is what the first few hundred base pairs of the Y Chromosome sound like in C major with "T" generating a random note out of the C major scale.
Also added is a basic idea of a visual effect I'd like to coordinate with the music.
On.A.Roll.

Prototype

Schedule Update
For Thursday:
1. Assign definite notes
2. Try assigning the random note for T
3. Figure out how many notes per rotation!
4. Make array of notes for cycle of fifths (have all the numbers, just need to input code)
5. Code the different tempos, or note lengths-loudness/ tempo command (convenient)

--[3]
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is usually envisioned as a pair of helices, the sugar-phosphate backbones, winding around a common linear axis. In the famous model of Crick and Watson, one turn of the double helix occurs approximately every 10.5 base pairs.
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we'll round to 10, that's a nice round number, and hey base 10-the code of the code-1010
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Notes and prototype TEST!

Progression is in action! Programming is coming along, my wonderful friend is helping me put what is in my brain into programming language, you are the best. Max helped a great deal with hints for code layouts as well. Teamwork! This is what came out after all that craziness and explanations:

CLICK FOR TEST
[click on the actual gray square to play]

It doesn't sound too interesting right now, but IT'S WORKING so *happy dance* . The next step will be time to make it sound and look good.

I found a cool midi plug in that I'm using within Processing, which is a lot easier and sounds a lot better than what I was planning to do with just computer synthesized tones. Phew! Here are the next steps:

For Thursday:
-Assign definite notes
-Try assigning the random note for T
-Figure out how many notes per rotation!
-Make array of notes for cycle of fifths
-Code the different tempos, or note length?

Later:
-Find out if there are other sounds than piano
-Play two tracks at once representing the two strings (this is very do-able in the midi plug in)
-Begin coding simple visualization program
-Interactivity that would morph the visuals and if enough time for coding, it would morph it along with the audio.

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RESEARCH!
[[mostly to keep everything in order and in one place for moi]]

more notes for layout of action site and details:

-23 different pieces you can click for each chromosome
-Each piece will have their own version of the visual, hopefully based on relevant gene composition
-Interactivity possibility- when the audio and image rendering is running, you can drag mouse button and this will morph the audio and visual somehow, maybe based one coordinates where they click and the pitch of the audio, movement of the image
-Interface will look like the chromosome metaphase spread located within the universe, maybe each planet or star representing chromosomes

-ISSUE: which is better, live streaming of audio, or real time streaming---real time streaming because of mutation difference each time but this may be too slow based on programming timing.

Some reference sites:

All about the human genome

More human genome info

Whole human genome sequence

[[almost scary...for my project that is]]] Facts:
--The smallest Chromosome is 21, ranging 46,944,323 base pairs
--Largest chromosome is 1, ranging 247,249,719 base pairs

That's a lotta base pairs...I'm wondering how possible it will be do do a live stream...may have to just do part of chromosomes and give the impression of humongousness.

Tempos info[[not even sure if this will be relevant since I may just use tone length]]:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo :

• Prestissimo - as fast as possible (200 - 208 bpm)
• Vivacissimo
• Allegrissimo
• Presto - fast (168 - 200 bpm)
• Vivo
• Vivace - lively and fast (~140 bpm)
• Allegro assai
• Allegro - cheerful and quickly (120 - 168 bpm)
• Adagissimo
• Allegro Moderato - Moderately cheerful and quick
• Allegretto - Rather lively (but less so than Allegro)
• Moderato - moderately (90 - 115 bpm)
• Andantino - Alternatively faster or slower than Andante.
• Andante - walking (76 - 108 bpm)
• Adagietto - Rather slow
• Adagio - slowly (66 - 76 bpm)
• Grave - heavy, seriously
• Larghetto (60 - 66 bpm)
• Larghissimo
• Largo - suspended (40 - 60 bpm)
• Lento - very slow
• Lentissimo - exceptionally slow

10 Alanine	Ala	A	nonpolar	neutral	1.8
20 Arginine	Arg	R	polar	strongly basic	-4.5
30 Asparagine	Asn	N	polar	neutral	-3.5
40 Aspartic acid	Asp	D	polar	acidic	-3.5
50 Cysteine	Cys	C	polar	neutral	2.5
60 Glutamic acid	Glu	E	polar	acidic	-3.5
70 Glutamine	Gln	Q	polar	neutral	-3.5
80 Glycine	Gly	G	nonpolar	neutral	-0.4
90 Histidine	His	H	polar	weakly basic	-3.2
100Isoleucine	Ile	I	nonpolar	neutral	4.5
110 Leucine	Leu	L	nonpolar	neutral	3.8
120 Lysine	Lys	K	polar	basic	-3.9
130 Methionine	Met	M	nonpolar	neutral	1.9
140 Phenylalanine	Phe	F	nonpolar	neutral	2.8
150 Proline	Pro	P	nonpolar	neutral
160 Serine	Ser	S	polar	neutral	-0.8
170 Threonine	Thr	T	polar	neutral	-0.7
180 Tryptophan	Trp	W	nonpolar	neutral	-0.9
190 Tyrosine	Tyr	Y	polar	neutral	-1.3
200 Valine	Val	V	nonpolar	neutral	4.2

Off to snooze.