Wii - remote composer - Javi Lee

Description

• Motivation

I was just curious to see if one could compose music with the Wii remote. I've been very influenced lately by many friend who create their own music and so I wanted to have a "musical" aspect in this project. My basic idea would be set up a screen that will be cut up into squares, (not visibly) and these squares will be holding certain notes. With the Wii remote, one could go over these squares and press a button on the remote to 'activate' the sound. The program will automatically save this input and have the possibility to play back the music after wards.

• Interactive paradigm

I wanted to take the physical space and turn it into "concert" hall. The user will be able to compose 'music' without having to go into a secluded room to use technologically advanced computers and programs to compose a small piece of music. This will be a real-time composition of music as if he/she were to be a composer for a band at a concert.

• Technical Description

I want to use Processing to be able to connect the the sensor and the accelerometer in the Wii remote. The processing program will split the screen into grids where each square of the grid will hold a pitch/sound. Then the user will be able to use the sensor of the Wii remote to track where the remote will be pointing at the screen. The accelerometer will help to move around the screen as well. Then by pressing a button, the user could play the sound and 'save' the sound so after the user presses so many buttons, he/she will be able to replay the sequence of sounds saved.

Visualization

• Functional Diagram