WEATHER REPORT - FLIPMU
"Weather Report" uses Brick, a tangible & multi touch interface, to sonify real-time weather data (surface temperature). Video taken at the tables premier at Sea and Space Explorations gallery in Los Angeles. Created by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis @ California Institute of the Arts. For more information on Brick & Weather Report, go to http://bricktable.wordpress.com Uses ReacTIVision software for tracking, and custom software written in Max/MSP/Jitter and Reaktor.
Weather Report was first installation developed for the Brick-Table, in the spring of 2008, and sonified weather data. The installation uses the multi-touch Brick Table interface to present a heat map, displaying the current surface temperature of the United States. The user has three objects that can be used to both generate a travel path across the map, and to manipulate the sound created by these paths. While the travel path will define the musical loop, the real-time surface temperature will define the audio processing. In this way, the final musical output is a synthesis of both the path the user takes and the current surface temperature. Additionally, the user is able to further modulate the composition by rotating the physical objects.