MakeAXE 2015 - WSU Summer Camp

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Contents

Overview

Day 1

Morning (8:30 - 12:00)

8:30 - 9:00: Introductions

Introductions: me, counselors

What is this camp?

  • Making instruments
  • DJ, VJ
  • Realtime audio/video synthesis Pure Data
  • Examples: Maize video
  • Live demo with bananas and stuff

How the camp is structured

9:00 - 9:30: The Name Game

  • Groups of 4 and 5, then 9:
  • Name
  • Music thing or Geek thing or anything!
  • Contest between the 9

9:30 - 10: Pure Data intro

lecture schmecture 1

Pd: The Philosophy
Pd: The Language
  • Pd vs. Pd-extended
  • Runs on anything, even Android and iOS
  • Free as in speech
Down and Dirty with Pd
  • objects, messages, comments
  • inlets and outlets, connecting objects and messages to each other
  • [pix_video], [pix_texture], [rectangle]
  • Show quickly [rotateXYZ], [sphere]
  • Interactive help with objects

10:00 - 10:30 Workshop 1: Baby's First Pd Video Patch

  • Work in pairs. Review what we did with this video
  • Add one cool thing: rotation, sphere...something else?
  • Can you add a filter? Project onto a teapot?

10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Schmecture 2

  • Combining messages
  • Adding filter
  • Slider, number box, dragging and shift-dragging
  • [cube], [rotateXYZ]
  • [line]
  • [bang(

11:00 - 11:30 Workshop 2: Learning to crawl

11:30 - 12:00 Final Project

  • Criteria: Do *something*, anything which
    • Incorporates live elements
    • Incorporates live or recorded video, audio
    • Uses Pure Data, Makey Makey, webcam
    • 3ish to 5ish minutesish longish
  • Ideas to consider
    • Performance?
    • What form does it have?
    • Are you demoing an idea or technique?
    • Is it an environmental sort of thing
    • Does it have a unique element?

We are going to show off some (all?) of final projects at the Wichita Mini Maker Faire

Afternoon (1:00 - 4:30)

Learn more Pd

Example1: audio

  • Build 'A' with [osc~] and [dac~]
    • Show canvas help, then interactive object help
    • talk about tilde
    • keyboard shortcuts
    • inlets, outlets, creation arguments
  • Add volume control *~, number box
  • line~, snapshot~
    • audio streams (sig~) vs. control
  • bang~
  • add freq slider with line~
  • make a note
  • Surf the 'net for cool Pd stuff
    • Groups of 2 (semi finals)
    • Then groups of 4 (finals)

End-of-Day

Day 2

Morning

8:30: Review of Audio

  • [osc~], arrays, [dac~][adc~][tabwrite~],[line~]
  • help, Gem help
  • [snapshot~]
  • [*~] [+] [%]

9:00 Work session: audio sequencer

9:30 Example2: audio

  • audio scratcher
    • arrays
      • use [tabread] and [tabwrite] to show that it really is an array
      • substitute [table]
      • play only parts of the array

10:00 Work session: audio scratcher

  • combine with sequencer?

10:30 Pd roulette

  • 5 computers in a circle
  • 5 minutes each
  • 2 teams of 9
  • what sounds the coolest?

11:00 hack up a cool Gem project

  • Demo the idea
  • Student work:
    • First individually
    • Then Groups of 2 (semi finals)
    • Then groups of 4 (finals)

11:30 Mini Maker Faire and final project

  • Final Project presentations: Thursday afternoon 3:30

Optional Activities

  • write poetry or haiku with Pd
  • write mad libs with Pd
  • Zoom, Shwartz...

Afternoon

1:00 Video recorder/player and scratcher

1:30 Work session: player and scratcher

  • Contest: groups of 4 make up a plot and use the scratcher to tell the story

2:00 Intro Makey Makey

2:30 Work session: Makey Makey

3:00 Zoom, Schwartz

3:30 Color Tracker

4:00 Work session

  • discuss what to do next

Day 3

Morning

8:30: Final project idea brainstorm

  • Think at least 1-2 minutes
  • Could be a game
    • Brainstorm games
  • Could be a cool unique audio effect
    • Pitch shifting
    • detect pitch
    • use an instrument?
  • Video?
  • Review projects done in Pd/Arduino Engineering class

8:45: Color tracking. pitch shifter

9:00: Work session

  • Explore pitch shifters and color tracker, or work on whatever you want

10:00: Tell a story

  • Work in groups of 4
  • Decide on a story: 1 to 2 minutes
  • What is the mood
  • Give people roles: write music, create video
  • What are the Background sounds and music
  • Use the scratcher: what will repeat and how?

11:00: perform the stories

11:30: brainstorm final project ideas

Afternoon

1:00 Submit final project idea

1:30 Free work session

  • Review project ideas with John

3:00 Break!

3:30 Free work session

Day 4

Morning

Hack up a Gem help patch

  • Look at a minimum of 5 Gem help patches
  • Choose one to hack up
  • Do something cool
  • Example: [1]

Afternoon

1:00 Mock presentations

3:30 Final Presentations

  • Mini Maker Faire