weekend silliness: a real fancy remote
31 Jul
A little fledgling program called Color a Sound, which uses pictures drawn on transparency to trigger sounds. It’s not overly impressive at this point, but I’d like to think that with a little more development, it could result in some creative musicking.
Color a Sound from blair neal on Vimeo.
At the least, tech makes consumption more about making and less about out of the box. Reminds me of Marc Levoy’s Frankencamera (watch out! web 1.0 site coming up!), which NPR
did a little piece on last year. It’s not what most people have time or patience for, but who knows what weird efficient things we’ve got up our own sleeves.
Either way, I really like the idea of the Edit button in programs. Instead of just being able to set certain parameters for predefined functions, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to change the function in a fundamental way? I suppose if your programming chops are good enough you can do that now by designing your own stand-alone program, but I’m hoping this will become easier for laymen. It’s not quite there yet, but the idea is seeping into consumer programs like Max for Live.
Combine this with the touchscreen technology (Max for iPhone?) and it could all get very visually appealing and interesting.
Hey, computers weren’t all that impressive when they first came out either. We’re still at the beginning of things – you don’t tell a five year old that his drawing sucks, right? Check back in 10 years…
