Dynamicland archive

February 2018

DSP Kit

by Luke Iannini

This entry is a stub, and will be expanded on a future archiving pass.

A collection of oscillators, adders, multipliers, etc., which can be arranged in networks to generate sound.

An excellent example of small, simple objects combining in rich open-ended ways.

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With the Spring joystick (2017).

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Making of.

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Second version: DSP Kit (2020)

"Joystick story" - Paula adding a bridge and jamming with the joystick, you could hear the spring's effect if you twanged it "Delay story" - Someone live-coding a delay at a party "Logistic map story" - Bret and Josh sonifying the logistic map Holding a sine wave in your hand Bricolage a synthesizer Snapshots - the diagram is the program "Spatial machines" See all the state, everywhere It's a system It's a teaching tool It's a performance Use the same thing to do all of these Connects to Music Cards (joystick, dial, cube)

@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 Caught a casual, beautiful moment at @Dynamicland1. @lukexi got his sound synthesis kit working, then @itshunkydory grabbed a joystick from the other room, hooked it to an oscillator and made amazing noises. (thread, videos have sound)

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@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 She did this by taking a number card from Luke's kit and adding 3 lines of code to have the joystick's x position control its value. @qualmist made another card controlled by y and they hooked them in by just laying them on the table.

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@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 Also Paula's joystick is made from foamcore, a spring, and a lump of clay.

@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 We've been playing with editing printed code by just pointing a keyboard at a page and typing. We need higher-resolution projection to make this effective but it feels important to casually scratch out code this way so we'll find a way to make it work!

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@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 I want to emphasize it is NOT the technology that enables this stuff, it is the SPACE. It's about having a critical mass of people together and a space full of rich creations that can be grabbed and reappropriated. A space and medium built around combinatorial possibilities.
@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 Also being in a nonprofit research context! We're able to focus deeply on how dynamic media can support face-to-face conversation and improvisation (we call this "gatheraroundability") because we don't focus on what can be productized / where market dynamics want tech to go.
@mandy3284 — Mar 1, 2018 We need more nonprofit long-term research in computing, education, civics, etc! I hope that Dynamicland can serve as a model/inspiration for other long-term research endeavors. (end thread, thanks for reading!)

@jasoncrawford — Apr 27, 2018 DSP demo at @Dynamicland1

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