Heart bits
| Heart bits | |
|---|---|
| Name | Heart bits |
| Location | NDSM |
| Date | 2019/07/16-2019/07/17 |
| Time | 9:30-16:30 |
| PeopleOrganisations | Andrea Valliere, Ana Jeličić, Jonas Bohatsch |
| Type | Meetup |
| Web | Yes |
| No | |
Our use of technology doesn't often make us feel more present in our bodies and in touch with our surroundings. For this workshop, we worked against that. We used open source heart rate sensors to tap into our most vital body signal: the pulse. We learnt to route this data into sound and visual systems. Our bodies became the interface as we try to control the sights and sounds with only our hearts. We observed the effect of the environment and stimuli around us through our changing heart rates. Finally, we came together at the end of the workshop to perform as an orchestra.
Together, we learnt how to use Open Sound Control, p5.js, and Processing to learn how to route our pulse signals into generative music and art. We'll introduce you to the sensors and Arduinos and provide a jumping off point through code concepts and examples.
Participants had to bring:
- A code editor (such as Atom, Sublime, VS Code)
- Arduino IDE https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
- Processing https://processing.org/download/
- P5.js http://p5js.org/download/
- node.js https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- (Optional) A MIDI controller or other electronic instrument with CV (control voltage)
Workshop led by Andrea Valliere, and Ana Jeličić & Jonas Bohatsch
Repository and Useful Links
- Find the repository of Jonas and Ana here https://github.com/kabrio/Heart-Bits
- Here's the repo for the heart rate variability visualization: https://github.com/avalliere/heartbeatProto/blob/master/README.m
- library for the PulseSensorPlayground.h, in case you got that same error in the arduino IDE https://github.com/WorldFamousElectronics/PulseSensorPlayground
- https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-custom-shortcut-buttons-arduino/
- https://medium.com/@Spotify/groove-is-in-the-heart-matching-beats-per-minute-to-heart-rate-271a79b7f96a
- If anyone is using p5.js https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
- https://projectgus.github.io/hairless-midiserial/
- synth basics: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/get-started
- Here is the code where the java library called robot is used to control the mouse, per request. Sorry its not cleaned up! https://gist.github.com/CharStiles/d426d3775b1e02b7627b5eda70628193
- Upload to Feather Huzzah ESP8266 via WIFI https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp8266-ota-updates-with-arduino-ide-over-the-air/
A poem note by Juliette
serial plugger heartbeat sensors on the tip of your finger or on your ear there’s a lot of noise in the signal the banana has a pulse, it’s confirmed
what about giving a heartbeat to something else, an apple? or a plant maybe one has an unreliable heartbeat first aid panic attack visuals red is blue and blue is red
feedbacks rather than input if you’re not relaxed and you see it’s crazy you’re going to freak out if i fail i just do a cute radiant sphere my heart would be speaking processing synthesiser midi controller change plants don’t have a heartbeat but I would like to see how I could grow a tree from a heart beat! mixing trees and vines
replicates an organic shape introduce random output a number between zero and the number you want numbers between 333 and 666
everyone loves colour HSB HSB HSB HSB HSB "If the heartbeat gets as regular as the knocking of the woodpecker or the dripping of the rain on the roof, the patient will die within four days." attributed to Mai Ching or The Knowledge of Pulse Diagnosis, often used by autonomic nervous system practitioners nothing breaks like a heart sensor yea it’s quite sad and depressing small fluctuation we are all unique and create face out of that