Round 2.
Nothing really changed on the sensor. I just soldered extension wires to the existing ones, and soldered the ends of wire to the input pins for the sensor-to-Arduino connection. Whatever tweaks that were made, were done to my Max patch.
The first patch basically faded between two sound sources. For the second one, the main mechanic was still fading between two sound sources, but I added two more for a total of four sources the user could manipulate. I tried to dynamically map the sounds so that they would change after passing a few parameters, but I couldn't get that done in time. Instead, I just put a metro that would change the sound source after 10 seconds.
This week, I further developed the DJ concept I had with the BT Arduino. I thought about how DJs are usually confined to their mixing booth and aren't really able to interact with their audience on the dance floor or in other rooms. They can wave their hands and try to get the audience to follow, but they can't mix and do that at the same time.
So for the second assignment, I tried to solve that by simulating DJ controls and LP manipulation by mapping that onto the sensor. For the most part, I almost forgot that I was using the glove as I was walking around and trying to "dance" to the beat. As Ihde puts it, it became transparent for me because I could concentrate on trying to impersonate a DJ rather than focus on controlling the sensor.
To someone who's watching this performance, it is obvious that I am using a glove sensor. So the next step would be to hide the sensor in clothing around another area where pressure occurs.
The transparency of the sensor faded away when I noticed that not all of my sound sources were playing. I was only getting two sources and the patch wasn't changing the sounds up. Hopefully, this concept could be developed further.
