Ideation 2 of Final Project- Update

A collaboration has emerged between Sarah, Connor and myself where we will be interacting/manipulating various parts of the lighting system in the MoLa. My contribution is a system that will listen to sounds of a tap dancer on a small piece of wood (a tap board) and affect the colors of specific lights projected on the floor on or near the board.

Connection from microphone to computer/Isadora:

Microphone (H4) –> XLR code –> Zoom Mic –> Mac

The zoom mic acts as a sound card via a USB connection. It needs to be on Channel 1, USB transmit mode, and audio IF.

Our current question now is can we control individual lights in the grid through this system and my current next step is playing with the sensitivity of the microphone so the lights don’t turn on and off out of control or pick up sounds away from the board.