Unitary is a new media artwork and sound sculpture. The work highlights the process whereby media are able to translate abstract representations into lived/visceral/tangible experience. The immediacy of sound and it's physical nature serves to bring the virtual diagrams into non-abstracted perception.

How it works...

The work is realised using a projector, a loudspeaker, a computer running custom developed code (developed with Processing), multiple external code libraries and Ableton Live. 

Through the use of Mountain Lion's built in IAC driver and Processing's "The MidiBus" library, the code receives a midi composition (sent from Ableton Live). Each note is respectively visualised as a symbolic representation (that signifies it's pitch, length, and velocity), projected onto the face of the loudspeaker. The note's are given a virtual mass and are added into a simulated physical system, they move intuitively across the face of the loudspeaker according to forces determined by the newtonian physical principles innate in the used Processing physics library "Traer Physics".  When a note crosses the event horizon of the speaker cone towards which it is attracted, it begins to sound (through employment of Processing's "Minim" library) and fades away both visually and aurally as it's sound is depleted.

The code can be found here: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax0uwpunymor3ne/Unitary.zip

Non-coders can run Unitary as an application (mac only) from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nl6n3b9uxh7spd0/wGdZ_4lK5S

Instructions:

(will be here soon)

Thanks to Processing (processing.org), Minim (code.compartmental.net/tools/minim/), The MidiBus (smallbutdigital.com/themidibus.php), Traer Physics (murderandcreate.com/physics/‎) and Brighton University for making this possible.

For more information...

Feel free to contact me with any enquiries at Absurd.Contact@gmail.com