Bodily Voices

In the previous investigations via Eulerian Video Processing and ultrasound sensors, I saw the minute changes of my body–I saw how my pulse move and my heart beats with me completely unaware. It really felt as though the body is another creature separate from me.

So I wanted to further investigate the pulsing of the body and hear it, receiving information from it as though conversing with another entity.

Further Eulerian Works

Work using low ram computer, scale factor (similar to resolution to get better images) = 0.5 out of 1.

My Process:

Stabilize –> Magnify

Holding still is really hard! I used tracking stabilization to see if it makes a difference–for most videos, it did.

I then changed up the levels of all the parameters to see the differences they made. In the higher frequency ones you can see it moving really fast, which is still slightly confusing to me as my pulse normally doesn’t move that fast.

PARTS:

These are just all the parts I did, scroll through, though the ear is particularly interesting.

Parts that didn’t work well:

In these I felt that the image did not look great. I wanted to use a higher scale factor but:

My computer’s ram is far too low to support that. So I moved to the school’s computer.

New videos

These used the same videos but just better scale factor. It is interesting how as the scale factor moves up the exaggeratedness of the magnified movements goes down.

Myoware + hearing muscles

I tried so many wirings to make it work. It took me so long because I read that you should use an isolator for these sensors for them to work safely. I had the adafruit isolator and kept trying different setups with a pi so that the power goes through the isolator, but nothing worked.

So I ended up just not using an isolator. Fortunately (but also annoyingly), it worked fine :-(. I read through the sensor and max/msp reads a txt file to make these sounds according to the output.