Coming up with a program yo!!

The first week of DM2009 was literally a crash course. In theory its week 4 but this is only my second lesson. Move on buddy!!

This week is the application week. We were introduced to Arduino?!!? According to Mr Dirk, it is the most basic equipment and the most useful equipment one can have as a sound engineer. Woohoo~ it sounded easy.

We were asked to follow the guides from the tutorial and try to light up a light bulb. It can be frustrating to some extent that everyone else had their bulbs lit and mine was to no avail. But when it finally lights up, its as though you found an oasis in the desert.

This is the picture of arduino and the smart board before connection.

After connection~

In the photo, we couldnt really tell that the bulb was lit. But it was...

Evidence...

Furthermore, I was also fascinated by Mr David Bryne with his performing piece "Playing The Building". "Playing the Building" is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. He connected devices to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes. The devices miraculously made the dead objects produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. Being a Civil Engineer, I was amazed by the fact that building made of steel and cement can actually become a musical instrument. He also uses the knowledge of physics to produce sounds 

I felt that he was trying to remind us to understand and listen to our surroundings. Do not view the buildings that we live in, the place where we work in merely being a tool for civilization and urbanization. The awareness of the beauty in something that does not have a life itself is just amazing. Appreciate things and people around us, they are all as beautiful as one can be.  

I found this other video in youtube. Mind-blowing!!!!! I think its very clever to infuse art and science. The device will only produce sound when it detects red color. Dance was also incorporated into the performance, making the experiment very interesting. 

Next week is chinese new year!! Many red packets! If I have the device installed in me, the sounds that comes out from me when I see a red packet, probably shows my eagerness and enthusiasm in receiving. LOL. - random thoughts