Description – There is a tent structure covered in charcoal drawings of old organisms, cellular structures, and spirals. This tented structure is made from large branches found in the park. On the inside, I am there, with a prompt to state a personal truth. A computer program transfers this audio information into a sentence, and the volume of ones voice is reflected by a circle that changes sizes (the louder, the larger). I observe the circle and document the sentence the program returns. I write down a number of repetitions of ones statement, based on how loud one stated it (the louder, the more repetitions). I share the truth statements and how many repetitions they received at the end of the performance.
Process Reflection – In the future I definitely want to work with Arduino, because it was hard to work with a new library where I didn’t know many people who could support me in the technology aspect. Because P5.js and arduino are both very new to me, I really could have benefited from more guidance from someone who had works with speech rec before, but I was unsure who to reach out to that would make time to help me. I think in the future it would be better to work on something that I knew I could get support in in the class, as this makes it easier to finish the technology well and on time.
In the critique, one thing I learned is that you cannot just consider something you make pithing interacting with one person, rather you must consider the context of someone watching another [person interacting with the thing you made, and what. That experience as an onlooker is like. I think what could help with this is staging practice performances ahead of time that imitate the interaction I would like to happen in my piece, and record it so I could gain more perspective on this.
One thing that I am very happy with is how the space turned out! I definitely did plan my time better than the last piece in spacing out the work for myself. Even though I am in studio art, so I feel comfortable making things with my hands, this is the first time I have made an installation someone could walk inside. I was really proud of how this space turned out and the intimacy of the natural elements and the traces of drawing.
I am a bit critical of myself in the conceptual consideration of this piece, even though I think some parts were strong. The more I think about the prompt I had, to assert a personal truth, the less powerful or interesting I think it is. I like the idea of being biases toward what is loud, in a space that celebrates silence, but I think this prompt was distracting to that exploration. I dislike the question too, because it implies that there is a kind of stable personal truth, or feels like it is pressuring someone to establish a personal truth, when in reality, I believe we are all in flux. I dislike confessional work because it feels as though the artist is attempting to create this space that is transformative instead of actually creating someone interesting that derives from exploration/ the loss of ego.
p5.js Code –
/// project title – hyphen
// this code recognizes one’s speech and returns one’s sentence.
// it also draws a circle which varies sizes according to how loud one speaks.
/// code credit goes to the p5.SpeechRec examples as well as p5.Sound examples
let speechRec;
function setup() {
createCanvas(400,400);
let lang = navigator.language || ‘en-US’
speechRec = new p5.SpeechRec(‘lang’,gotSpeech);
speechRec.continuous = true;
speechRec.start();
//mic information
mic = new p5.AudioIn();
mic.start();
}
function gotSpeech(){
console.log(“I got result, the result is”);
console.log(speechRec.resultString);
console.log(“—————————-“)
}
function draw(){
background(250,230,230);
if (speechRec.hasOwnProperty(“resultString”)){
micLevel = mic.getLevel();
text(speechRec.resultString,100,100);
ellipse(width/2, 3*height/4, micLevel*500, micLevel*500);
}
}
function onresult() {
console.log(“this is working!!!!!”);
console.log(“________________”);
}
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