SoundAffects is a project designed to turn streets sounds into music. It uses an Arduino to read data from street level sensors measuring temperature, light, color, weather, cell phone activity, noise and proximity. This data is then processed using a combination of Jitter, MaxMSP and Ableton Live to produce dynamic musical compositions which passersby can then listen to via wall mounted headphone jacks. Visualizations are separately produced using HTML5 and Javascript and produced on a wall mounted LCD screen.
SoundAffects is a NYC based composition created through collaboration between Mono, Parsons the New School for Design, Tellart and PD Solid.
You can listen to and view the results of this project via a timeline on the SoundAffects website.
We’d like to see the source code and schematic for this project!