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Cooperation between Prof. Michael Götte and Benedikt Groß.

The course is part of the basic courses in curriculum of the “Interaktionsgestalter” programm. The course tries to teach the students in a very general way methods of spatial organisation of elements and layout, independent of dimension and media. So it was very obvious to extend in this exercise (see below) the communication medium from a normal screen to other media like light and leds.

Exercise
The Students have to visualize a 20 to 30 seconds long piece of instrumental music. The Visualisation have to be based on a parametersystem to meet objective and subjective criteria. The goal is to translate the syntax of the chosen instrumental into a readable visual equivalent.

Setup: 2×7 LED pannels, each panel with resolution of 72 pixels and 1 meter length

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Julian Köhn + David Leßmann. Music: Introduction Et Rondo Capriccioso - Saint Saëns

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Lena Irschl + Barbara Saga. Music: Autumn Leaves - Dirk Reichart

Please note, some students chose not to use the leds as their display. You can see their documentation videos underneath:

• Thomas Techert, Philipp Gräßer: Happy End
• Christian van Elten, Kirstin Walker: God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
• Jürgen Graef, Ulrich Staruszkiewicz, Fabian Gronbach: Jynweythek
• Andreas Brendle, Andreas Burghart: Musikvisualisierung Failure33Object
• Eduard Warkentin, Joao Martins

3 Comments

1. Comment by Marc — 2009 Mar 16 @ 5:47 pm

   Hey Benedikt,

   did you build the panels yourself or are they available in usual electronic stores (if so, which one)? Have you used Arduino boards to control them?

   Marc

2. Comment by Daniel — 2009 Apr 6 @ 10:27 am

   looks good! i’d also like to know what kind of panels these are…
   cheers

3. Comment by benedikt — 2009 Apr 7 @ 10:48 am

   we got the hardware here http://www.richter-lt.de/leds/index.html

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