Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Smart things with Smartphones

How often do you get approached on a street and asked to take a survey or asked a question? Well, pretty often if you live in the city however what about being asked to answer a question using physical motions? Not verry often. The theme of this whole performance at the tank is simply about innovation. What hasnt been done before and how do we do it are the two main questions that we are faced with in our group of smartphones and devices. The problem is that there are soo many options out there, which ones should we choose.

One of the best ideas our group came up with was the idea of the implementation of twitter into a questionaire. Twitter is one of the hottest outlets out now so we should use it in order to gain the corperation of the majority of the people we interview. Out on the street, people will be asked to answer questions that are projected onto a wall by a mini projector. They will then be able to manipluate space and words in order to answer the question. We can then use the answer and project it inside the tank and maybe even allow the audience to interact.

We also diped into the idea of using smartphones to manipluate sound using touch OSC. Durring the performance, the majority of action will be done by the actors however if we can incorperate the audience to change something about the music, it will allow them to feel part of the performance.

The link below is really cool. It shows a VJ using abelton and touch OSC to conduct his performance. Check it out!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRMDEWauWHg&feature=fvst

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