For the final project, I decided to make a box that would show three different future scenarios called the FutureScope™. As you move your finger across the slider, the FutureScope™ shows the three different outcomes of the future with animation and sound! All the way to right, the future is over-industrialized and Earth has been…
Author: Braden
Final Project Sketch – Nature
For my final project, I want to focus on specific possibilities for the future. The first is an “ecological utopia” where nature has reclaimed the world from humans. The second possibility along the slider is a sustainable technological society where humans have found a way to have a harmonious relationship between humanity, nature, and technology….
Arduino Demo Sketch – Pressure
For the Arduino Demo Sketch, I decided to use a simple pressure sensor that when it detects pressure above 300, it plays a sound clip that says the line “pressure” from the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie.
Audio Input Sketch – “Will you shut up, man?”
For my audio input sketch, I decided to use the volume trigger patch and make a patch that tells the user to be quiet if they speak louder than a certain threshold. For the background, I used a muted clip of the presidential debate that was on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. When the microphone detects…
Meme Remix Sketch – Stop Making Sense
For my meme remix sketch, I decided to use clips of four lines from the song “Girlfriend is Better” by the Talking Heads from their concert film (and one of my favorite films) Stop Making Sense. The lines I used are: “Here we go again”, “I’m driving in circles”, “Nothing is better than this, or…
Interactive Touch Project – Disruption
For my interactive touch piece, I wanted to focus on how the coronavirus disrupted our normal lives. I compared our lives to a calm beach scene with waves and a few clouds. When the board is interacted with, different disruptions appear and break the calm scene up. For my updated version, I polished the physical…
Interactive Touch Project Sketch
For my project, I am focusing on the way that COVID-19 interrupted what could have been a nice year for everyone. In this model of the physical piece, I made a base that looks like waves and keys on top of it that trigger different sounds when pressed. Each key has a visual representation of…
Interactive Touch Concept Sketch – Disruption
For my interactive touch project, I wanted to create a relaxing ambiance that is disrupted by some jarring sounds. My audio player sketch has some of these elements, but more sounds to create a fuller experience can certainly be added. I decided to go with the theme of disruption because COVID-19 caused a dramatic change…
Makey Makey Audio Player Sketch – Sound Collage
For my audio player sketch, I decided to find some sounds on freesound.org to create a beach/beach house ambient soundscape. There is a sound for waves, seagulls, a boat’s foghorn, wind chimes, and a barking dog. Using the master Makey Makey patch in Max, I bound the waves sound to the spacebar and the other…
Data Art – European Jewish Population before and after the Holocaust
For the iteration of my data sketch, I decided to make an interactive animation. The animation uses text and images of each country’s flag to symbolize that country’s Jewish population. Clicking on the country’s name on the side brings up their flag with its size corresponding to the Jewish population before the Holocaust in 1933….
Data Sketch – Jewish Populations in Europe after the Holocaust
For my data sketch, I decided to show the dramatic decrease in the Jewish population after the Holocaust. While my family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, I have a deep connection with the history of the Jewish people, as I grew up Jewish and attended a Jewish middle and high school. In 1933,…
Hello, I’m Braden
Hi! My name is Braden Arnold and I am a sophomore here at WPI. I am from and have lived in Houston, Texas my entire life, and I attribute a lot of who I am to my upbringing in Texas. My main inspiration with respect to art is music. I love to discover new songs…