Using MelodySheep as inspiration, I sought out to develop a way for the audience to interact with an art piece, musically and visually. Under the metaphor “The web of ecology,” the audience can provide input under the the interactive sampler: https://dmcdonough-art-final.herokuapp.com. The interactive sampler that allows the audience to sample clips and quotes from environmental…
Author: Daniel McDonough
Daniel McDonough – Sensor(y) Metaphors Concept
Using Melodysheep as inspiration I plan on making a synth-board to remix scientific videos and quotes. As a metaphor of connectivity between humans, science and nature. Nature represented by petri dishes will be used as dials to control the visuals of the videos. To represent humanity, I plan on implementing the NodeJS MAX plugin such…
Daniel McDonough – Augmented Selfies
Here I implemented chromatic aberration that correlated with the distance of my face to the camera. As I go closer to the camera the effect increases. I also included random intensity changers on each color channels to make it more interesting visually.
Daniel McDonough – Sound Animation
Using the Geometric Abstraction assignment as inspiration I ended up producing an animation that could change to any song. Here I play some music out of my phone into an external mic. The animation changes according to the frequency, pitch, spikes, and volume of the music. As the sound from my phone is very soft,…
Daniel McDonough – Meme Remix
Using a GIF of Furret walking, I had 11 different backgrounds that the user can cycle through. I also added 3 different levels of zoom to mimic the original. In addition, a pixeliztion distortion and an offset distortion filter were used. The user can also speed up or slow down the music and video if…
Daniel McDonough – Paper Nature Revised
From feedback given I added small animations to make it more alive. I added small twinkles in the stars, the clouds now move, and the tides slightly move when staying still. In addition, I added a shell around the cup to conceal the wires. The only wires now showing are the ring and USB. The…
Daniel McDonough – Paper Nature
<LIVE DEMO TBD> Going of the water harmonica idea as detailed in my concept art, I completely changed what I did as I started to build it. The idea of having 3 straws being able to control the noise became very difficult as I quickly began to run out of wires and space. Using the…
Daniel McDonough – Paper Nature Concept Art
The rough drawing above is an image of a water based harmonica. Using a box full of impure water to conduct electricity. It is possible to suck water up to certain points of the straw to change volume and note based on which straw is being sucked on. In addition, it is possible that using…
Daniel McDonough – Everyday Mysteries
Just about everyday on campus I have to walk through the 3rd floor of Olin (aka the murder hallway). With a variety of items I chose to do 5 unique animations. Class composites – Stars Shelf – Donkey Kong Bags of Hay – Fire Hose – Snake Darkness – Eyes As this was my first…
Daniel McDonough – Animated Abstraction
Starting from scratch, I wanted to use two audio channels. So I ended up using buffer~ and play~ to enable this feature rather than the tie block shown in class. After noting I cannot produce music that didn’t sound like random noises I decided to go with the ambient noise route. Using a sci-fi drone…
Daniel McDonough – Geometric Abstraction
Inspiration: Richard Anuszkiewicz – Lemon Yellow Square This piece uses a solid color center and using lines around the square gives an illusion of depth. The use of white gradient around the corners gives the appearance of the square being “the light at the end of the tunnel” Richard Anuszkiewicz – Temple Of Cadmium Red…
Daniel McDonough – Bio & Artworks
Good Morning, I’m Danny, a senior Computer Science and Bioinformatics double major. I’m from Rhode Island and love puzzles and Pokemon. I enjoy tasks that make me think outside the box or learn something new. Below is one of my favorite puzzles. Try to see if you can solve it, the answer is one 5-letter…