Yasunao Tone in residence at C&CRS
An extract from Yasunao's description of his residency during the Summer of 2002 (taken from: Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., The COSTART Exhibition at C&C2002. in Creativity & Cognition 2002. Loughborough, UK, 2002. LUSAD Publications, p11-22.)
At Loughborough University, I was lucky enough to have been assisted by Mark Fell who had known my previous work and understood my ideas. He suggested using the Soft-Board for the visual to sound conversion. The Soft-Board system can detect hand drawing movements with the markers on the board with the accuracy of pixel by pixel, then the drawn lines are converted to binary data and stored in a computer for processing. The program Max/MSP makes parametric variants by scanning lines of video image from the harmonics we created beforehand. It also makes it possible to trace the positions of a moving hand with a marker to coincide with the sound distribution of pitches and timbres. So a stroke of calligraphy or tracing outline of an image invokes a great variety of sounds.
At Loughborough University, I was lucky enough to have been assisted by Mark Fell who had known my previous work and understood my ideas. He suggested using the Soft-Board for the visual to sound conversion. The Soft-Board system can detect hand drawing movements with the markers on the board with the accuracy of pixel by pixel, then the drawn lines are converted to binary data and stored in a computer for processing. The program Max/MSP makes parametric variants by scanning lines of video image from the harmonics we created beforehand. It also makes it possible to trace the positions of a moving hand with a marker to coincide with the sound distribution of pitches and timbres. So a stroke of calligraphy or tracing outline of an image invokes a great variety of sounds.
