Assignment 2 will be our first project that is created and delivered using Max. The goal of this assignment is to create a signal processing system that employs time shifting in some way. Feel free to incorporate other techniques we’ve looked at as well, such as feedback or down-sampling. Or explore independently and add whatever you like. Your system can work with audio, video, control data, or perhaps all three.
As with all our assignments deliver your work by creating a post on the website and submitting the link to your post in Canvas. Be sure to include your code in your post.
In 1914 Marcel Duchamp produced his first “readymade” – artwork made from things he found lying around (bottles, shovels, a coat-rack, & cetera). For this assignment you are going to use a readymade system – a signal processing system that you find lying around. Your “found system” could be on the internet, in one of your classrooms, in your telephone… It could be a photocopier, an online tool that transforms text or images, a plug-in or filter in an app, a toy that transforms sounds, etc.
Like Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room, you are going to use this system over and over and until your original signal is destroyed. Present each generation of the transformed signal so we can see/hear it evolve.
Your signal can be text, sounds, images, video – or something else. Win big on the “concept” section of this assignment by thinking of something we didn’t see coming.
Post your documentation on the class website along with a little description of what you did. Tag your post “Assignments” (see here for more details on posting to the site). And enter a link to your post on Canvas.
The first step for submitting an assignment is create a post on the course website. The course website is powered by WordPress, a free and open-source blogging tool and CMS. Using WordPress is pretty intuitive, but if you encounter difficulty there is a lot of support available online.
Your post should include the Max patch that was created for the assignment. To post your patch:
Unlock your patch. Select the entire patch (you can hit Command-A to Select All). Go to the Edit menu and select Copy Compressed.
Make a gist on github and paste the URL into your WordPress post. Wordpress will automatically display the code, like so:
For complex patches with dependencies and media files you may share a zip file via Google Drive.
Your posts should also include video and audio documentation of what your patch does. Video documentation can be delivered via Vimeo or Youtube – both offer free accounts. Formatting the video in a WordPress post is super-easy, just paste the link into the WordPress Visual editor [i.e. http://youtu.be/AdK-no9dKIA or https://vimeo.com/29001775], and WordPress will format it nicely, like so:
Sound recordings can be delivered via SoundCloud, which also offers free accounts. Posting SoundClouds is also super-easy, just post the link into the Visual editor [i.e. https://soundcloud.com/sp4cp/long-john-is-long], and WordPress will auto-format it nicely, like so:
Under “Categories” tag your post with “Assignments”:
