{"id":1356,"date":"2021-09-20T21:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:32:42","slug":"interactive-touch-poetry-lyre-will-aaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/waaaron\/interactive-touch-poetry-lyre-will-aaron\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Touch- Poetry Lyre- Will Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For my Interactive Touch project, I decided to explore the ways with which we communicate with each other. To do so, I create an electric lyre with the Makey Makey and conductive string to play different tones. As the participant plays the instrument, a Unity application slowly reveals a poem to the user while animating the words with color and opacity changes. The poem itself is based off of random things that my roommates and friends have said, and I created strange and interesting metaphors out of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Poetry Lyre\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UhLOTK1n38I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the poem in question&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sounds from the Red House<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zebra patterns overlaying the glowing eyes of paper and pestilence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The watch-maker\u2019s nephew kills the pastor in Diablo\u2019s garb, hidden beside the fountain.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And all the while, the pathetic notes rage against the light of normalcy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the graces of ink spawn, I write with the snails and frogs of ancient creeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m saddened by the grief of a thousand moons, belting their sorrows to the heavens and collecting their tears.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saltwater seas toss and turn, shoving moss and life into void and death.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The allotment sings to us, electric, electric lighting flashing never more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We toast to red queens and black kings, yet a flimsy house supports no commoners nor nobles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each moment fractured into instances of time, a subset of pause, as the reality among us is but a facsimile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is not truth to me and all but lies to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music dies a slow death, with one ballad left to whisper the children to their slumber.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And all the artists laugh in their ecstasy and their misery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my Interactive Touch project, I decided to explore the ways with which we communicate with each other. To do so, I create an electric lyre with the Makey Makey and conductive string to play different tones. 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