Composing music and working with Pure Data

This week our group has been taking on different tasks. Carina and Victoria are working on the music which will be produced as the cubes are inserted into the slots of the “mixing board”. They are using Garageband to create the beats and melodies of the different cubes. It has been challenging to find the right instruments for the corresponding materials, but we decided in the end to only use synth instruments. This way the focus won’t be on the particular instrument, but rather on the qualities of the sounds that are being produced from the “mixing board”. Victoria and Carina are currently exploring the different synth instruments available on Garageband so as to find sounds with the qualities we are looking for.

On the more technical side of things, we opted to use Pure Data to play our music. The main reason for this, is Pure Datas compatibility with playing multiple sound files simultaneously. Hours were spent trying to get Raspberry Pi to import the correct libraries, but eventually success was achieved! Pure Data is up and running, we have established connection between the Pi and the Arduinos and the future is looking quite bright.