Art & Sound by Design

Capadona — Tue, 16 May 2006 18:11:16 +0000

Finalizaton of the Family

Capadona — Tue, 16 May 2006 18:10:58 +0000

Well like most families we ahd our problems, the last episode included us having a power surge 15min, before the opening reception, blowing a tv and 2 dvd players. So we got the dvd players replace, I got a new tv and retro fitted the old frame to the new tv, got it hooked up everything seemed to be going swimingly. The apparently something went quite wrong with our logo chip, and we couldn't get it to control our little family unit that we created. But here are som pics to show how aesthiticly pleasing our little family is, you'll have to use your imagination for the rest.

video

Capadona — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:13:23 +0000

I've had no luck capturing the content I originally had in mind for this project, I wan't mainly commercials and some programing mapping out the day in the life of.., however apparently I don't watch enough tv or something because the programing I recorded didn't show half the stuff I remember. So what I've decided to do is to record television programs throughout the day, play them back on tv on FF and record the image directly from the tv with a camcorder, editing the content to 5 or 6 minutes then go to a sleep phase until the motion sensor is tripped again and the process starts over again. So essentially the concept is the same just modified slightly.

more family stuff

Capadona — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:09:34 +0000

So I have finished forming and welding the stands for the tv's being used in this project. The tv's have been taken out of their cases and I took some round stock and welded two 1/4" nuts on each end and ran a bolt through the tv mount that is strapped to the screen itself. Once those were in place I welded and formed more round stock to encase the screen an welded legs to it so the big tv sits about 2' off the ground. There are two other smaller tv's representing the kids, one of the tv's has the same type of casing as the larger but is slightly undeveloped (missing parts that the big one has) and sits about 10" off the ground, the last tv is representing the youngest of the kids and has a different stand than the others and sits about 6" off the ground.

I ran into some problems with the big tv, I had been using an old tv/vcr combo that I had stopped using because tapes kept getting stuck. Well when I put the stand all together the tv kept acting like a tape was stuck and kept shutting itself off. So I disconnected the cables connected to the tv, didn't work, then I took the entire vcr component off, didn't work either, finally I took the stop/eject button off, thinking maybe there was a short, nope that didn't work either so I had to go out and buy another tv, which when I got it back it was one inch to big for the casing I build, so I had some adjustments to do to make it fit.

current work on the family

Capadona — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:06:41 +0000

At the moment the video footage is being worked on, still waiting on some equipment to start the editing process, the final footage will be bits of commercials and television programing throughout the day. The content from tv will map out a day in the life of the family. The cycle will start with an alarm clock going off and the parental tv turns on and shows commercials for coffee and shower gels, breakfast stuff, the alarm goes off again, as if the parent is waking the kids, and their tv's turn on with similar content. The original idea had more interaction within the piece. for example, the two kids would begin to bicker back and forth with the volume rising and rising until the parents tv turns off and screams at the kids to shut them up, and then their tv's would both show some children's program, as if they were put in front of the tv as a form of punishment . The day cycle will go through the morning, afternoon, evening, and night, once into the sleep phase, lights shut off, tv's switch to blank screens or some other screen representing sleep. Once the piece reaches the sleep phase of the day cycle it will stay in that mode until some on walks up on the piece and triggers a motion sensor. Sorry no pics as of yet.

The Family

Capadona — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:26:30 +0000

This idea is still fairly fresh but so far what we would like to create is an interative environment that represents aspects of the family unit. Initial ideas and brain storming brought out ideas like having the child side of the installation start a “cry for attention” if the viewer is interacting with the parental side. Throughout the installation we plan on having an assortment of sensors tiggering objects in the space, aestheticlly we want this to be very raw. Incorporating found objects such as tv’s, radio’s, lamps and things you might see in the home into our environment.

More to come, Stay Tooned

Project Idea’s

Capadona — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:49:54 +0000

I am interested in creating an environment for the viewers to interact with. For instance, if a persons walks thru the space, different sensors will be triggered, triggering other objects within the space to perform some function. One idea is to have a bunch of TV’s or monitors displayed together and all blank except one, but the image will be small enough that the viewer has to walk up to it to see and when they do, it disappears and reappears on another screen. I know there are people interested in creating these types of environments so if I could just jump in on another existing project and incorporated some of the things I’m interested in exploring in this class

This is an idea for a side project but it might be interesting to
expand on for a final project idea. I want to do something with the
old tin can & stringtelephone we use to play with as kids. I’d like to
build a wall unit or a free standing unit that will have a bunch of
strings and cans attached. I was thinking each could be linked some
how so that each receiver will have sounds. The sounds all linked some
how to forms of communication; television, radio, morris code, cb
radio, so on and and so on. I don’t know if there is a way to
conceal wire or something within the string to conduct the sound more
clearly or even if this is a feasible idea in the first place.