by Yilin Ye & Sofia Pace

Work in pairs. Due in 2 weeks. Create a 60s sound composition. No visuals. Just sound.

• What parameters of sound are you working with? Texture, rhythm, melody, something else?
• Prepare 2-5 words to describe the sound as it progresses over the 60s.
• Create a blog post documenting your work. Include links to other projects that serve as references, inspiration, or deal with similar ideas as your piece.

how do you feel?

body - connection - rhythm : words to describe this project

For our sound project we wanted to explore making an interactive sound composition.

To realize this we’re mainly working with different rhythm and beats sounds that are activated when the sketch senses body/moment through the camera.

For the movement detection we are using the ml5 BodyPose library .

https://docs.ml5js.org/#/reference/bodypose?id=step-by-step-guide

To make sure that each sounds is played once at a time and not in quick succession, we used the millis() function.

This is established in this manner in the code:

let soundsLoaded = false;
let lastSoundTime = 0; // used to trake the time of the last sound played
let delayTime = 500; // delay time between sounds in milliseconds

//....

if (soundsLoaded && millis() - lastSoundTime > delayTime) {
		//conditions that alternate between sound patterns and combinations
}
lastSoundTime = millis(); //if the if statment conditions are met, lastSoundTime is updated to the current time
	}

To create change through the duration of the sketch we incorporated a gradual and somewhat randomized alteration of the played sounds’ “bpm.”

a help from chatGPT:

https://editor.p5js.org/yy4724/sketches/dI6x6swTc