For my creative project as part of my Sound and Music Production Course I have been developing an interesting idea.
My main idea was to play electronic music in the room with the 22.2 sound system while using hand motions to move around different sounds using ambisonics and/or change different variables like the intensity of the light’s reactivity to the music or changing the sounds of the virtual instruments being performed.
An idea I also had for the project was to add in some elements of transient stress to add some excitement or even thrills, similar to how people intentionally scare themselves by going to watch a horror film in the movies or the slight excitement and nervousness when the fire alarm goes off and you wonder if it was a fire that will destroy all your belongings or someone lighting incense sticks even though it says not to in the halls contract, why?, I decided I wanted to make people a little uncomfortable or disturb them a little.
Some of my ideas include using alarm sounds, infrasound at around around 20HZ, thunder (I think this has good potential), knocking sounds localised towards the entrance doors (this works), deep rumbling like an earthquake and common notification sounds/alarm sounds.
As for the visuals I decided I would use the 2 projectors in the room and book out around 8 DMX LED bars pointing at each column of speakers around the room that would react to the music. I have done some messing around in touch designer and created a neat looking psychedelic effect showing humans and creating a delayed effect.
At first I wanted to add live elements like live midi on top of a main bed track that was pre composed, however I realised that the idea sucked and it wasn’t really workable because I couldn’t route E4L to 112D without a custom plugin or something so I switched to SPAT for Ableton live which worked, but I had way too many tracks and SPAT was hungrier for my CPU. So I scrapped that whole idea and created a live performance oriented setup using Ableton Live’s Live part of Ableton Live.
So far I haven’t set up the lights or edited the video, but I think this will turn out good and I’m excited to continue this.