January 2021
Notes from Creative Coding in P5.js 28th January 2021
e.oetgen@lcc.arts.ac.uk
– What is creative coding?
– What is P5?
– How it works
– Functions
– Variables
– Interaction
– If Statements
– Loops
“Try breaking stuff” – Ed
Building software which prioritises expression over functionality. Code as a medium for making art, like paints, ink or clay.
Zach.lieberman – Instergram
Schultzschultzgrafik
n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com (Kinematics)
Code should be seen as a set of instructions.
– Humans and computers need a mutual language.
P5<C++
Code works in functions and Variables
Functions are naming things to give context and allowing dynamics, a piece of data.
What is P5.js?
– An add on to JavaScript
Javascript – Tool
P5.js
Community – Library
You should learn how to Make/Write Java Script
P5js.org/reference
http://editor.p5js.org – LravierJWB
“setup” [Initial] and “draw” [after setup][once finished it loops over and over 60 times a second]
Colour
Variables – “var” or “let”
EXAMPLE ONE:
let ellipseWidth;
let ellipseHeight;
let ellipse X;
let ellipse Y;
Function setup () {
create canvas (400,400)
ellipseWidth = 50;
ellipseHeight = 50;
ellipse X = Width/2
ellipse Y = Height/2
}
function draw
background (220);
ellipse(ellipse X, ellipse Y, ellipse Width, ellipse Height
EXAMPLE TWO:
let ellipseWidth;
let ellipseHeight;
let ellipse X;
let ellipse Y;
let xSpeed = 3
let ySpeed = 5
function Setup () {
create canvas (400,400)
ellipseWidth = 50;
ellipseHeight = 50;
ellipse X = Width/2
ellipse Y = Height/2
}
function draw () {
if (ellipse X>=width | | ellipse X<=0){xspeed*=-1
}
if (ellipseX>=300)}
fill(255,230,230);
}else if (ellipse X>=100){
fill(o,o,255);
}else{
nofill()
}
ellipse(ellipse X,ellipse Y,ellipseWidth,ellipseHeight);
ellipse X+=xspeed;
ellipse Y+=yspeed;
}
C++ Library called Juce for creating VSTs. Also Chuck and Csound.
Alex Mclean
Super Collider
Tidal Cycles
– Pure Data
– Max
– Tone.js
Notes from Careers Employability – Instagram Live Wednesday 27th January 2021:
– SWOT Analyse yourself.
– Look at as many jobs as you can find that fits your want.
– Look for things that you can do that would benefit sain employer.
– Don’t let the lack of experience hold you back, we always start somewhere.
Get clear on what you want
Find people that can support you
– Reference; (Trisha @Createandempower, 2021, Online Live Stream Video, Watched 26th January 2021, <https://www.instagram.com/uopcareers/?hl=en-gb>).
Tuesday 26th January 2021:
Maryanne Amacher
Sound Flower/Loopback – sound capture software
“BUTT” Broadcast Using This Tool
Creative Commons 25th January 2021:
– Learn how to make a mic
– Learn how to stream audio in real time using an IP/Server
– Look into Pure Data
– Learn how to 3D print
– Ability to sell devices.
Realise that you are not defined by the objects or people around you, but actually; within your own head, you define them.
Manipulator VST Plugin – Referenced by Vlad whilst demonstrating work.
ProTools – 960 tics within a quarter note
Notes from Dr. Louise Gray’s lecture on 21st January 2021:
Acousmatic Listening and Body Listening
Peter Cusick – Everyday Sounds. London, Berlin
Creating something now is important because we will forget very easily what life is like in this time.
Don’t judge yourself in terms of “it’s good” or “it’s bad”, the fact that you’re doing the work is the main point.
Allan Luomax – Documenting musicians and culture.
“in search of the blues” – Marybeth Hamilton
Walter Benjimine – Aura
Legend of Robert Johnson
John Cage – Confusionism – China eching sticks
Cafe oto
Oblique Stratagist – emo and schmit
Museum of portable sound.
Writing strengthens brain muscle, it’s a way of getting fit.
Get your ideas out there.
Trance music sound ritual
Gnawn
Qawwali music
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“dude837” on YouTube.com. – This channel showcases Max/MSP and gives tutorials on how to create various algorithms within the software.
Notes from Sonic Writing (Thor Magnussen, 2019)
Mythological Muses – Nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne – Taught by Apollo
“aoide” song/tune, “melete” practice/occasion, “mneme” memory
(d’Errico et al. 2003:38)
(Tomlinson 2015:251)
“Grammatization” (Stirgler 2010b)
AHRC (UK Arts and Humanities Research Council)
– Reference; (Thor Magnusson, 21st February 2019, Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions, Physical Book, Pages 3 to 4, Read on 8th January 2021).
Basic Textual Skills:
Look at the brief
Everyone will make mistakes. It’s incumbent on us to check over your writings.
Padulate. (Page Numbers)
Read your texts out loud.
December 2020
Notes for external sounds:
1 recorded a tunnel with people walking by. I like how you can understand the expression of a person’s humming. It gives the scene an extra level of context.
2 Very quiet strike of a metal railing, recorded using a contact mic. I picked it due to it’s softness and how it’s resonance seems to take more of the focus than the initial strike.
3 Recorded under a bridge in a concealed area. I hold my house keys and drop them to the floor. The impact is severe and I feel a sense of pressure from the whole thing. Like a drop on a rollercoaster.
4 Second railing sound. I found this to be the most well rounded of my sounds striking metal bars. You can hear pulses in it’s resonance which is fascinating as it will be due to the waves from the impact passing back and forth through the mic until the force is completely dispersed out of the bar.
November 2020
Use history within your work (from any aspect of the world) – Gives reference in a tangible conversation
“Satire” – The use of intellectual humour to pick at something
Your work is going to be interpreted by anyone who witnesses it. Allow people to be people, do not get wrapped up in the idea of their responses.
The many countries around the world give bursaries to artists, it would be wise to look into what funding different countries offer and in what forms. Jessica Ekoman stated that the countries of Europe are more giving to the arts at this time than most. A notable country for this is Norway.
Duophonic – Two channels of audio.
Taking one channel, copying it and overlaying it back onto the first with a slight delay. Also known as Fake Stereo. You can also isolate the bass and treble to each channel creating more depth.
I had not realised how many people are involved in pushing technology forward. Then I think about how many technology industries their are and how I might find my place among them as a profession. I need to look into industry work.