Project Proposal
Domains
Precedents:
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Music: Remix Music
Music Performance
Experimental Music
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Animation: Music Video
3D MappingZ&Projection
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Language: Body Language
Character
The Orbweavers – Posion Garden
Motion Music Video for Shugo Tokumaru
Audiences&Contexts:
People who loves music and want to have new way to play music or have new experience with music.
Music performer or music game lovers.
Provide people a new way to have fun with music.
People who are sensitive to sound. And it can also used in VR/AR. ASMR can be applied for people who have much stress.
People who want a better visual experience.
People who have desire to express their feelings and emotions through their bodies.
Make a readable word for people from different countries.
Process:
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Narrow down to certain domain and do more research on them.
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Try to combine some domain together and use these domain as keywords to do brainstorming.
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Make 3-5 concepts about these domains.
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Pick one of concepts and do more research on it.
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Do a prototype.
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Do users testing.
Design Questions:
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How can I transfer my ideas into a real things?
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Do people can understand my concepts?
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How can I make my ideas conveyed to the public?
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What is the purpose of my project?
Summary of workshop
Three Specific domains :
Remix Music
Concepts:
Music Jacket/Gloves
Precedents:
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sound change with movements
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interaction with people
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there is no specific meanings of each sound.
Body Music Remix
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collect different sounds from human body.
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give those sounds a new meaning.
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sound made by percussion
Remix Rhythm
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rhythm may affect people's walking
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the rhythm of walking can be someone's identity.
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It is not a phenomenon, it can be used into certain project.
Experimental Music
Concepts:
Store City's sounds
Precedents:
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record all sounds in city
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create a vibe.
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on interaction with audience
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use web to showcase
Experimental Instrument
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diversity sounds made by different materials
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complex process
ASMR/3D Music
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provide a better auditory experience.
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combine with stress therapy
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lack a strong concept
Language
Concepts:
Translate body language
Precedents:
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make people easy to communicate
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platfrom(app/web)
make the gestures talking
words for international communication
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close to real life experience
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techniques
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more like a picture but contains numerous information.
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hard to understand
Three Ideas :
Questions:
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Make a project focusing on sounds from human body.
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What kind of sound that made in a natural way I can collect?
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How can I collect these sound?
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How can I transform these sound into a music?
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Is the song can represent a person?
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Make a project focusing on the rhythm of walking.
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How can I record this kind of rhythm?
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How can distinguish people's rhythm of walking?
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Is the rhythm of walking can be someone's identity?
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Make a project that can connect movements or gestures with music.
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Do people want movements to make sound?
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Is there relationship between gestures and music?
Sketch:
First Proposal(2016.10.24)
Inspiration:
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Personal Experience: distinguish my mom’s rhythm of walking
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Personal Experience: swage to the strong beats
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Observation: different sports(movements) have their rhythms(running, badminton, etc)
Research:
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The Resonant Human: The Science of How Tempo Affects Us(Human beings can distinguish a range of tempos from around 40 to 300 beats per minute)
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Why do we like to dance--And move to the beat?(mirror neurons—cells found in the cortex/Music, in fact, can actually refine your movement skills by improving your timing, coordination and rhythm)
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Marching to the beat of the same drummer: the spontaneous tempo of human locomotion( They speculate that this spontaneous tempo of locomotion represents some form of central “resonant frequency” of human movement.)
Design Question:
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Board Question: What the relationship between rhythm and people?
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Narrow Question: How can rhythm define people? (You are defined by your rhythm/ each person has his own tempo)
Domains:
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Rhythm/Tempo
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Movements
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Frequency
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Identity
Precedents:
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The rhythm of walking (the rhythm of walking under different conditions)
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CarePredict’s Tempo (rhythm tracker)
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paceDJ (The app creates playlists for you based on the beats and allows you to give thumbs up or thumbs down on the selection to influence the mix)
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Andante(various animated characters walk up and down the piano to help students visualize musical motion)
Audience:
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People who are sensitive to rhythm & people desire to find their identity.
Context:
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Track people’s various rhythm in the usual state.
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Make those rhythm into unique music.
Initial Ideas:
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Tracking people’s rhythm(walking/heartbeats) and use it to play a same song.(tell the differences)
Impact:
Fact:
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Rhythm is ubiquitous in daily life.
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Different people have different rhythm.
Phenomenon:
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People nowadays try to show their identities or doing many special things to show personalities. You do not have to do those things you can just show your identities.
Feedbacks:
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Domains and design questions are interesting and worth talking.
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Need to deep more into this topics.
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Too narrow down to certain part.
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Do more research on precedents especially have a wild exploration on different type of rhythm from human body.