Cycle 1, Stress Relief Environment

I am developing an installation that leads a participant through a “create your own” stress relief environment and guided meditation. The concept of this project is to provide a brief escape from the stresses of daily life to help individuals recenter and allow themselves a break. This will be possible by creating a Touch OSC interface on an iPad that communicates with Isadora through the relaxation program I will develop. The program will prompt the participant questions that will allow them to choose music, calming videos, and a nature sound/background noise. I envision the program to be played inside a fort or tent installation with comfy pillows and blankets for a better sense of security and privacy from the outer world.

During cycle 1, I set out to begin creating the Touch OSC program that communicates with Isadora. I successfully created the Isadora patch and was able to figure out how to get OSC to communicate with Isadora. The most helpful feedback gave insight on how to prompt the questions to the participant. Instead of projecting the questions and using the OSC to respond, causing the participant to constantly look up and down to know what to do… my classmates suggested that the questions and OSC interface could have both to make it easier to understand.

In addition, I realized that I needed Isadora to send messages back to OSC to have a more robust program. This was something I knew I needed to figure out for cycle 2.