MaxMSP and its use in the COSTART Project

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Max/MSP and its use in the COSTART Project

• Creativity and Cognition Research Studios
• Computer Science Department
• Loughborough University UK
• www.creativityandcognition.org

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COmputer SupporT for ARTists (COSTART) Research
Project

• study of creative collaborative projects
• implication of collaboration in the creative
  process
• implications in designing computer systems for
  creativity support
• funded by EPSRC

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• artists who want to use new technology
• often need
• to extend the technology itself
• new knowledge and expertise

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• collaborations are formed between people with
  different kind of expertise

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• implications in the technology developed and in
  the creative process

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the research method of the COSTART Project is
practice-based artist-in-residency is at the
heart of it
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timeline of the project
core team created in February 2002 E. Edmonds,
Director CCRS L. Candy, Senior Researcher
I.Holt, Project Officer M.Fell, Research
Associate S.Pauletto, Research Associate
A.Weakley, Research Associate
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• artists are approached and invited to submit a
  proposal specifying artistic and technical needs
• feasibility studies can requirements be met? is
  there enough technical challenge?
• 5-day residency preparation prior the
  residency collection of data through
  observations, interviews and diaries during the
  residency follow up work
• exhibition and work in progress section
• data analysis and distribution

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result

• 10 residencies
• audio-visual, interactivity, web-based work, 3D
  modelling, PDA-based work, etc
• 5 residencies used the Max/MSP environment
  together with the Jitter objects and the Cyclops
  object

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the 5 residencies

• Ray Ward The Sparkler
• Gina Czarnecki Interactive Evolution
• Adriano Abbado Interactive Noise
• George Saxon Living Without a Water Feature
• Yasunao Tone Calligraphic Soft-Board Performance

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preliminary note the sensors hardware interface

• hardware constructor Dr. Colin Machin
• 8 slots, each slot can have a module of either
• 8 analogue inputs
• 8 analogue outputs
• 8 digital inputs
• 8 digital outputs
• output to the serial port of the computer

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Ray Ward The Sparkler

• interest in drawing and performance
• aim real-time drawing machine
• model bonfire sparkler gt drawing in the air

• sensors
• CODA system to track movement
• acceleration sensor
• image analysis system

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• the current arrangement
• video analysis with the object Cyclops
• video camera as input
• a luminescent pen is tracked by the video the
  analysis object is set to track the brightest
  object
• the coordinates of the tracked pen are used to
  draw a line or sent to appropriate visual objects
  (e.g. pool example in Jitter)

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Gina Czarnecki Interactive Evolution

• a population is represented and projected onto a
  screen
• the audience has the power to decide how the
  population evolves who dies, who creates a new
  born, etc.

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• concerns
• evolution of realistic imagery from live and
  video source material using paradigms of
  biological evolution
• exploration of socio-political concerns,
  technology and art through a multi-user interface
  and generative programming
• interest in how people make choices

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• fundamental requirements
• real-time interaction
• interaction has to be primarily between members
  of the audience, not between individual and
  technology
• there has to be a mechanism so that the audience
  decides on the evolution of the population
  through an action

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transparency
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floor pads matrix and screen

• each pad corresponds to a person on
• the screen
• the max patch looks at which column has
• someone in and then finds the row value

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Adriano Abbado Interactive Noise

• interest in the correspondences between abstract
  animation and synthetic sound
• interest in wireless interaction
• introduction to Jitter and proximity analogue
  sensors

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• the work
• composition of pre-defined sequences of visual
  and aural events
• user can control the balance between aural and
  visual events, i. e. focus on macro-structures
• sensors 2 MIDIGestures from York Electronics
  Centre, one controls audio, the other controls
  visuals

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MIDIGesture sensors proximity sensors
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George Saxon and Mark Fell Living Without a
Water Feature

• Saxons work is rooted in the expanded cinema
  works of 1960s and 1970s
• George and Marks concerns
• relationship between live and recorded material
• responses to place, context and situation

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people
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entrance
projector
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record movie2
playback movie1
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Yasuanao Tone Calligraphic Soft Board Performance

• concerns non-traditional relationship between
  text and sound
• 1982-5 Molecular Music
• 1992 Musica Iconologos
• 2002 Macaroni Synthesis

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the soft-board
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