For this project I wanted to make music with the webcam image. I wanted to have different points on the camera that would play certain sounds depending on their luminosity, but realized that luminosity is not an easy value to control with so much ambient light around the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I decided on using RGB values for a single pixel to play the different sounds. I created a synthesizer to when the red value for that pixel was higher than blue or green. Another synthesizer that plays when green is the most dominant, and another one for blue. I tried to use the patch that detects movement to change the frequency values of the synthesizers, but couldn’t get it to work with the signals being created by the “cycle~” object. Even though I did not incorporate many of the computer vision functions we saw in different patches, I was able to get some interesting sounds using different colors on my shirt. Fortunately I had red, green and blue parts on my shirt. I also created an interesting drum loop with an odd time signature, and some alternating down beat sounds. I also tried to use an envelope object for my synthesizers, but again, couldn’t figure out how it worked with an incoming signal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a video of me playing around with the patch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n