Schedule – Designing Physical Interactions for Music 2023
- Monday: Get your basic tool chain working
- Tuesday: Delve deeper into the toolchain and begin forming project ideas
- Wednesday: Technology, Design, Guest Lectures and start working on projects
- Thursday: Individual work with consultation
- Friday: Present your final project
Monday
Morning 9am – 12:30pm
- Opening Sketching Exercise
- Class Overview
- Signal flow and toolchain
- Context, History, Examples
- Electronics overview
- Background and Intro To Microcontrollers, Arduino and Teensy Platforms
Afternoon 1:30 – 5pm
- 1:30pm Roger: Musical ideas for various sensors and sound/light outputs (30 minutes)
- Hands on Lab 1: Button In, MIDI out
= Goal: Send and receive data between Teensy and Computer software.
= Challenge: Make an interesting instrument with two buttons. - Finish Hands on Lab 1
Homework
- Sketch 10 ideas
- Bring your lunch so that we can have a short lunch break on Tuesday.
Tuesday
Morning 9am – 12:30pm
- Design Thoughts: Bill Verplank Interaction’s Design Sketchbook – Button vs Knob. Continuous vs Discrete Gestures
- Sensor Brainstorm Exercise
- Sensor Lecture 1: FSR, Bend, Photocell, Pot, Softpot, Hall Effect, Piezo, Homemade Sensors, Textiles
Afternoon 1:30pm – 5pm
- 1:30 – 4pm Present your ideas to the class.
- 4pm – 5pm Roger: What’s inside LinnStrument and how I created it (60 minutes)
Homework
- Homework: Make a rough plan for three of your ideas
Wednesday
Morning 9am – 12:30pm
- Materials for Makers Lecture
- Sourcing Parts and Materials
- Sensor Lecture 2: Proximity, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, IMU, Encoders, Capacitive Sensors
- Serial Protocols (i2c, SPI and UART) AND MIDI Clarified
- 11:30 pm Scott Kildall Guest Lecutre
Afternoon 1:30pm – 5pm
- 1:30 Roger : Tips for making an effective project and presentation (30 minutes)
- Hands on Lab 2: Knob In, MIDI CC Data out
- Wednesday Afternoon Get Going on projects if ready.
Homework
- Homework: For one of your ideas, make a detailed plan or proof of concept.
Thursday
Morning 9am – 12:30pm
- Group check in about the state of your piece
- Sensor Lecture 3: Sensing Systems – Wii, Leap Motion, Sensel, Cameras, etc
- Continuous Sensing in Teensy AND Scaling data on the Teensy, Mapping Data in your DAW
- Physical Interconnects – Advantages, Options, Demonstration
- Teensy Audio Library
- 10 am Roger: Making your project into a commercial product (30 minutes)
- 11:30am Individual working with consultation
Afternoon 1:30pm – 5pm
- Individual working with consultation
Homework
- Wrap up your project and concentrate on how you will demonstrate it on Friday.
Friday
Morning 9am – 12:30pm
- Morning – Make any final adjustments to projects and setup in stage.
Afternoon
1pm – 3pm Final Projects
3pm – 4pm Wrap Up Conversation
4pm – 5pm Clean Up
Roger’s Course Guide:
- Homework: Make a rough plan for three of your ideas
Optional Lectures
Please note that given the time constraints of this one week workshop, we can only provide a short introduction to each of these subjects and pointers to places where you can go to learn more.
- Motors, Kinetics and Mechatronics – The Basics, Further Resources and Interesting Work.
- OSC: Open Sound Control
- CAD Design
- Haptics
- Max/MSP
- Sound Synthesis
- Audio Effects