For our final project, we explored the creation of “live” music using sensors that monitor the user’s movement and heart rate. The program reads data from a live body monitor, and queues music samples/overlays depending on the action performed. Additionally, the overall bpm of the music is synced to the user’s heart rate and displayed…
Author: Nick Sorensen
Nick Sorensen – Computer Vision Gestures
For this project I took inspiration from the meme assignment. I used faceOSC to track the height of my mouth to determine when my mouth was open or not. This information was used to either play or stop a sound file using the playlist object. I had to experiment a bit to get the constant…
Nick Sorensen – Meme Remix
For my meme remix, I decided to use the song all star but with a twist. Here is the original music video that has been modified to only say “they don’t stop coming”. I used this video in max and added video and sound effects depending on button and joystick inputs. The song is really great…
Nick Sorensen – Paper Nature
For this project, I decided that I wanted to make a cloud that could be interacted with. At first, I thought I was going to make the could out of paper, but found cotton balls give a much better look. The cloud is made internally of inflated balloons that have LEDs shining into them. They work…
Nick Sorensen – Paper Nature Concept
For my paper nature project, I want to incorporate some form of pop-up paper art. I also to make the pop-up art able to play different notes. I was thinking about what I notice most about nature and decided on either trees or clouds for my interactive objects. When finished you should be able to open…
Nick Sorensen – Interactive Animation
For my project, I wanted to use already existing characters. I decided to use a couple of characters from Southpark with some matching sound clips. The motion was created in Animate using a motion tween. My patch was simple when a box was clicked the sound and video file would both play.
Nick Sorensen – Animated Abstraction
For this project, I decided not to use my geometric abstraction piece from the previous project. I kept the animation to only circles. I created a beat that included a screaming goat that would randomly be played on the last beat. A circle would increase in size and then decrease in a random location on the screen…
Nick Sorensen – Geometric Abstraction
For my geometric Abstraction assignment, I gathered inspiration from Sophie Taeuber-Arp. I like the organization to the artwork following strict spacing and alignment with same sized shapes. While different shaped objects in the piece may not line up with each other, patches of same shaped objects are arranged in patterns. I decided to have my bangs control…
Nick Sorensen – Short Bio and Artworks
Hi, My name is Nick Sorensen. I’m a senior studying Robotics Engineering with a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering. My experience with digital and traditional art is fairly limited. Most of my digital art experience has been here at WPI in the 3D modeling and animation classes. I used to have much more free…