GMU:Digital Puppetry Lab/Group Swarm

Group Tasks

-Emilio Aguas: Input development (Processing or TouchOSC), Sound output implementation (Max/Msp sound patch)
-Fiona Mortimer: Visual output implementation and music development (Max/Msp/Jitter video patch)
-Eduardo Oliviera: Visual output implementation and music development (Max/Msp/Jitter video patch)

Concept idea

- Thinking about an external input we came up with the idea to use our voices as an input. Something like take the change in the decibels every time you speak into a mic. but after several trials it was better to take another direction so we decided to take the acceleration data from a mobile device and do something with that.

In our case we took the path to manipulate the acceleration values in X, Y and Z axis, so with that in mind we tried to develop an sound output that was loud and annoying like when a hornet pass by flying and also generate a swarm and chaotic visual output of this same concept.

Data flow diagramm

Tips...
On the mobile phone the outgoing port it's set up on 8000 so for the first laptop we need the same port number, on the first laptop the outgoing port is the 9000, so the receiving port in the second laptop should be 9000.

Step by step implementation

1. Download touchOSC into your mobile device android or iphone:
Iphone
Android"