Storytelling: Reworking Steady
I want to rework my Hypercinema final. It’s a video, with music I made, and AI-generated visuals based on photographs I took. Last time, I spent a little too much time on the music and not enough time on editing…
Environmental Sound Classification
This was a really interesting week. I enjoyed playing around with the notebook. For my own little project, I decided to dispense with notebooks and the p5 editor and run everything locally – a python script server and a p5.js-based…
Intro to Fabrication: Face Box Thing
I didn’t start out with a plan. First I did a test cut. I calculated how to compensate for kerf in the finger sizes, and came up with this design: I tried to engrave a picture of my girlfriend’s dog…
Listening Machines Week 3: Speech Emotion Recognition with Classical ML
I ran all the cells in the the Class 3 notebook. Everything went pretty smoothly. It was fun to test out the voice classifier – it basically worked, but with some funny caveats, e.g. you have to speak loudly to…
The Little Mermaid
I made a short animation retelling The Little Mermaid. It uses Grouper’s “Alien Observer” as the soundtrack and runs about four minutes. Most of the work was done in After Effects, with vector graphics drawn in Illustrator. The structure follows…
Interactive Song Mixer – D’Angelo’s “Lady”
I built a web-based mixer for a track-separated version of “Lady” by D’Angelo. Uses p5.js for UI and Tone.js for audio. Link: Signal Chain Four tracks: Bass, Drums, Chords, Vocals. The Chords track combines Other.mp3 and Piano.mp3 since the…
Audrey – Building a Speech Recognition System
I tried this with the latest version of the notebook. The evals do well, and the predictions have high confidence, but, when I try the live recognition cell, all the predictions are completely wrong and random. It particularly likes the…
Bowtie Thing with Hole
This week’s assignment in Introduction to Fabrication was to make five identical objects using the techniques we’ve covered so far. I made five Bowtie Things with Holes: I used the miter saw to cut a long board into five equal-sized…
Deedle Day
Audio-Visual Looper in p5.js I built a browser-based instrument this weekend. Twelve audio samples mapped to keyboard keys, each with a corresponding animation. p5.js for visuals, Tone.js for audio. Basic structure: Each sound-visual pair is a class that handles both…
Box
I made this box: I used a 2×4 from the scrap bin. It was too long, about a foot, so I used the compound miter saw to cut it down to about 4 inches. Then I used the band saw…