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dlk253@nyu.edu
cell.SPACE
ITP winter show 2004
dana karwas
visit site http://www.dk22.com/suburb
cell.SPACE is a project that generates text into spoken word and customized graphics. cell.SPACE composes freestyle lyrics from cell phone text messages
in the form of a short live music video with the graphics and text lyrics controlled by the beat. cell.SPACE takes text and turns it into a new
category of freestyle text message expression.
Users can send text messages from their cell
phones or send emails to dana@dk22.com and have their written text messages show up on the screen with a voice accompanying the text.
Simultaneously a hip hop instrumental is creating and guiding the voice so the text from the cell phone or email becomes the lyrics.
cell.SPACE has 21 different voices to choose from including male, female, creature, robot, and even a voice that mimics human laughter.
Instead of just being read back to the user, the voice is controlled by the beat of the music. Essentially cell.SPACE
takes the text or email messages and freestyles your text back to you.
With a simple text message and press of a button users can have their text messages and emails take on a voice and sound of their own.
cell.SPACE was derived out of the idea of being able to use your cell phone to control the sound and graphics in a space.
Remotely users can send messages as text or images to make their voice heard.
Why?
Aside from a general desire to have the program Max/MSP/Jitter controlling text and images being sent from cell
phones and emails I am interested in the ability to remotely control the collective audio and visual aspects of public spaces
with mobile devices. Mobility is constantly defining, recycling, disposing, and reinterpreting the idea of identity. Cell
phones offer an extension of and a portal into ones own identity. cell.SPACE exposes the very conscious connection to ones
mobile identity by bringing the sounds and visions of mobility to the edges of digital space.
cell.SPACE can be used in a public place, retail, restaurants, or bars to display information from various users with either a
public or more private audience.
cell.SPACE can also be used in educational technology to help bring a voice to people who may not be able to speak.
Users can email or text message with a phone to have their text have a voice.
Technology:
cell phones with text messaging
speakers
display system (projector/flatscreen)
webcam(to capture live images)
computer connected to internet
max/msp/jitter program for computer
perl program running on FTP server
How does this work:
Basically the root of this comes out of a perl script that is on my ftp server. Perl is running every minute and checking for
any messages that have been sent to dana@dk22.com. If a message or pic has been sent it takes the body of the email message/jpg
image and places it in a text file on my ftp. From there the Max/MSP/Jitter program goes into my FTP every 10 seconds and grabs
the text file and the jpg, loading them into the text and talk objects and from their begins its graphic processing. THe music
and beat are also running in Max/MSP/Jitter and composing the final output on the screen through audio and video.
Classes and Instructors:
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Master of Professional Study
Luke DuBois: Live Image Processing and Performance
Dan O'Sullivan: Networked Expressions
Some Lyrics from the ITP Winter Show Dec 19th and 20th:
"move it shake all around technical electronics I love the sound"
"text message turbine raps it to the wall"
dlk253@nyu.edu
Links:
Max/Msp/Jitter
http://www.cycling74.com
StudioIMC
http://www.studioimc.com
ITP
http://www.itp.nyu.edu
Live Image Processing
http://stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~rd64/
Networked Expressions
http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/%7Edano/netex/
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