GMU:Max and I, Max and Me/Quan Zhou

Idea

Tumbleweed[1][2] lives in the north of the world. It grows from a seed. In autumn, its roots will dry up, and the whole plant will be easily moved by the wind. When they are moved by the wind, their seeds will also fall to the ground while they are tumbling. It is an alien species to the United States, and the United States is threatened by it every year[3]. They will block the roads, will block people's doors and cause some disturbance to people's lives. I thought about what would happen if I made a similar object like this and put it in a southern city's street in China? This city has a humid climate and is very different from the environment tumbleweed lived before.

The interactive way: when human touch it, it will tumble to opposite direction

The way of movement

See more if you are interest in various ways of ball rolling

Big Title Test

Experiments

01

Play around on Max and getting to know the interface of Max 22.04

( Careful , the sound is quite loud )

02

Sound to text & video analysis

Sound to text File:Assignment 2 audio.maxpat

Video analysis

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03

Converting analog signal to digital to analog

Firstly, try example file inside Maxmsp, due to the port of Arduino cannot be found

File:02cSerialCommunication.maxpat

Then test signal

File:Analog to digital.maxpat

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References

Student work :

• Soundscape installation from Felix Geith [4]

Resources:

• Movement way of ball [5]
• Fans on cube [6]