ThisIsKindaSketchy.
Joe Chung



Information



Sketches
  1. CatSuit
  2. Venus In Blinds
  3. Mixed Signals
  4. The Candy Castle

Augmented Reality
  1. Parallel Thesis Show
  2. Tangible AR

Projects
  1. pin(gpong)ball
  2. Circular Rhythm Machine
  3. boxedin

Speculative/Conceptual
  1. Olfactory
  2. Center of Motion







Circular Rhythm Machine
Blob detection in Processing


Circular Rhythm Machine is a rhythm synthesizer that uses pieces captured by an RGB camera to make music. 

To make beats, musicians place pieces on a mat, on rings, where each ring would correspond to a sound, like a high hat.


The camera picks up the location of the pieces, and if they are on one of the rings, the sound will trigger as the hand sweeps over the piece.


During set up, the camera image is adjusted for contrast, for optimal blob detection.


One of the aesthetic proof of concepts I built involved inserting plastic pegs into slots at intervals, and when the sweeping hand passed over the pegs, the LEDs for that ring would like up.



Circular Rhythm Machine, 2019
Processing
Parsons School of Design MFA Design & Technology
Major Studio 1 Advisor: Harpreet Sareen

Circular Rhythm Machine was part of a thirteen-week studio project involving research, feedback and iteration. You can more about the design process on the project Github Page here, and the paper here. A video summary is here

Created in Processing using its OpenCV library.




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