GRAPH
THEORY | 2006
Screen Interface design for Flash based web application
Client: Jason Freeman (Composer) / Turbulence.org (Sponsor),
Atlanta/New York
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Upon receiving a project
commission from the New Media Foundation Turbulence.org, Jason Freeman (composer)
collaborated with Leaky Studio in the construction of a project interface
for his Graph Theory Piece.
The piece is comprised of several pre-designed sound fragments (a
sequence of notes played by solo violin), which can be sequentially
re-arranged in a variety of options. Users navigate through the score
by determining a path, based on a limited number of compositional
elements at their disposal. The "voting: patterns of which are stored
on a server and determine the formation of a real score, which is
then downloaded a few minutes before (as a dynamically generated
PDF) live performance by a solo violinist or cellist.
Within the interface, the top section features the current sound
clip, which plays in a loop, the previous selected clip on the top
left and the forthcoming possible clips on the top right. Users
have the option to go back in time by selecting the previous clip.
The forthcoming clips are colour coated based on their popularity
(from hot to cold), thereby giving the user a visual cue as to how
the piece has been previously navigated.
Users can see their trajectory through the score through the score
map, located bottom left, while nodes within the graph grow and shrink
depending on their activity within the navigation. Alternately,
users can use the map to navigate the score as well.
URL: http://turbulence.org/Works/graphtheory/
Concept, Programming and Music: Jason Freeman
Design: Leaky Studio
Violin: Maja Cerar |
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