event
Synthux Hackathon 2024

Metronomic Voices

Understanding the rhytm of different lanuages
Ableton
Electret microphone
prompt

Coaches & collaborators

Roey Tsemah
institute
Design Academy Eindhoven
“The nature of a peoples’ language inevitably affects the nature of it’s music – not only in obvious and superficial ways, but fundamentally” Design Academy Eindhoven is buzzing with a mixture of languages: Turkish, Italian, Mandarin, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Korean, Dutch, French. Each of these languages holds a distinct musicality, a pattern of flows and beats. We wish to illustrate this rhythmical DNA by transforming spoken language into a beat. We did so by letting the loudest sound peaks as well as pauses of a spoken sentence be translated into a clicks and silence of a solenoid.
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the tech

How does it work?

We connected a microphone (using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 soundcard) to Touchdesigner, where we converted the sound into a binary signal of on/off. Touchdesigner forwarded this signal to an Arduino that was connected to solenoids. In the film we used a single solenoid to demonstrate the concept, but we worked with 3 different solenoids that were supposed to be placed in the space exhibition space for a more immersive experience.
Open source code
Click here to grab this project's code
Ableton
Music production program
Electret microphone
Record or detect audio gain (volume) changes
About the instrument
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