A few good lungs (day 279)

June 2 (day 6)
More recording in the studio.  It was a slow start with a discovery that all our previous recordings had been somehow faulty.  They didn't sound bad or anything, just inaccurate in the soundfield aspects.  A couple of hours later the problem had been located and we were able to record.  We had a list of sounds to individually record:

• words and phrases of uncertainty
• yawning
• dialogue and gossip pronouns (I, you, we, us, together, they, them)
• throat clearing
• breathing
• humming

It took about a half hour to record per individual.   We then recorded group sounds like footwork on the wooden floor, skin rubbing, and Tibetan chimes and singing bowl performance.  We finished the day at a Portuguese Grill.  Yum.

Miles in the recording booth. ←

June 3 (day 7)
A great day.  The new build of Derivative was posted and I was able to have multiple lungs breathing using geometry instancing.  It looks great.  The Macbook Pro I'm working with doesn't seem to have any problems dealing with the load so far.  I was so happy to see the multiple lungs breathing I forgot to take a screenshot or make a movie.  As I said enthrall is inversely proportional to documentation in my case.   At first I thought the multiple lungs looked kind of busy but when projected large the feeling was different.  We displayed them in conjunction with a collection of breathing sounds and it created a kind of reverent space.  I liked it a lot.

We ended the day at Sala Rosa, where they have great food and a performance space upstairs.  After eating we took in a Vaudeville show by Les Filles Electrique upstairs.  And what a show it was.  They really made us feel believe all the tricks.  It became such a magical place by the end of the show. There were some great visuals and projections. In one they projected talking faces on someone's face. A surprising result of a morphing face. In another they had a box made out of semi-transparent scrims with someone inside. Very interesting 3D kind of effect when projected from either side.

A seance right at the beginning of the show. ←

June 4 (day 8)
A somewhat unsatisfying day.  My goal for the day was to get varying videos playing in the instanced lungs.  I got close to a solution but ran into a slight hitch.  I was trying to fill a texture array that I could use in the shader for the lungs.  After struggling with how to do this, I posted to the forum and was delighted to get a response very quickly again!  How amazing that is.  The next build of Touch will include a quick and good way for me to fill my texture arrays.  It makes for a slow process but not one altogether unrewarding. 

Meanwhile, Miles processed the audio samples we've been recording, getting them ready for automatic generation of soundscapes based on OSC messages that I'll be sending him.  Hopefully we get to that bit tomorrow. 

Leila, Thea, and Zoe all went out to record stereo video with the new Canon Xacti cameras.  We'll take a look at the footage tomorrow.

We also have some more time in the recording studio tomorrow afternoon.  Now that I write it all down, it may be that some of these things don't get done.  Who knows.  Getting more material at this stage is both great and daunting.

We ended the day at a Lebanese restaurant called Daou.  Amazing food.

A song for this post.