Art Installation System
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Shelter – Jam with Eric Bogle
DynaMix - Art Installation System
Functional Specifications and Logical Design
1. Background
In December 2015, the City of Mandurah approved a financial grant to Elm.
This grant will provide the resources needed to complete the ‘Shelter - Jam with Eric Bogle' community project, which will deliver a novel art installation as a part of the April-May 2016 Stretch Festival. See more!
Thanks to this grant, and the kind donation of equipment by the Mandurah Muscateers, instrumentalists and singers across the breadth of Australia have an opportunity to contribute their interpretation of this inspiring song during the official practice and record stage commencing on the 18th January and concluding at the end of March 2016.
To make possible this project, a novel computer application will need to be developed, which will allow visitors to the Stretch Festival to interact with the application - emulating the role of a Movie Editor. This application will be titled DynaMix, which denotes the two key features of the proposed software, namely; the dynamic retrieval and display of videos from an Audio-visual Repository, in a mix determined by various system parameters and visitor inputs. In addition to DynaMix, an MS Access database and various utilities may also be developed to ensure video and audio data held in the Audio-visual Repository are well classified.
DynaMix will be prototyped at the Fairbridge Festival in April 2016 as a precursor to its production use as an art installation exhibit during the 2016 Stretch Festival furing lat April – early May.
The new application will be designed generically so that it can be used in future projects involving different music.
DynaMix - Art Installation System
Functional Specifications and Logical Design
1. Background
In December 2015, the City of Mandurah approved a financial grant to Elm.
This grant will provide the resources needed to complete the ‘Shelter - Jam with Eric Bogle' community project, which will deliver a novel art installation as a part of the April-May 2016 Stretch Festival. See more!
Thanks to this grant, and the kind donation of equipment by the Mandurah Muscateers, instrumentalists and singers across the breadth of Australia have an opportunity to contribute their interpretation of this inspiring song during the official practice and record stage commencing on the 18th January and concluding at the end of March 2016.
To make possible this project, a novel computer application will need to be developed, which will allow visitors to the Stretch Festival to interact with the application - emulating the role of a Movie Editor. This application will be titled DynaMix, which denotes the two key features of the proposed software, namely; the dynamic retrieval and display of videos from an Audio-visual Repository, in a mix determined by various system parameters and visitor inputs. In addition to DynaMix, an MS Access database and various utilities may also be developed to ensure video and audio data held in the Audio-visual Repository are well classified.
DynaMix will be prototyped at the Fairbridge Festival in April 2016 as a precursor to its production use as an art installation exhibit during the 2016 Stretch Festival furing lat April – early May.
The new application will be designed generically so that it can be used in future projects involving different music.
1. System Overview
The DynaMix Art Installation application is but one component of many. It will take its place in a line-up of other existing software to provide the functionality required by the process to be followed during the Project (denoted by grey arrows in the following diagram).
The overall system comprises four sub-systems, one for each process step, namely;
1.Create and Recruit
Elm writes or acquires music for a project. In this Project, the song Shelter was written by Eric Bogle and was acquired for the Project, thanks to the kind permission of Eric.
Elm builds and makes available music resources for participant practice and recording.
Participating singers and musicians register to participate, and volunteer and paid professional helpers are recruited during this phase of the Project.
2.Record, Cleanse and Synchronise
Participants access the music resources provided to assist their practice. When ready, they then video record their rendition(s) and submit the video file(s) to Elm. For local participants, Elm facilitates video/audio recording sessions. Elm then manually and semi automatically pre-processes the videos to review, cleanse, synchronise and normalise each video recording.
3.Classify and Replicate
Elm manually classifies each video in terms of qualitative characteristics. Software utilities are used to automatically quantify objective characteristics in batch processes.
A commercial image processing firm then uses batch processes and render farm to standardise and replicate videos into layers ordered by descending resolution.
4.Exhibit
Elm loads the DynaMix with the pre-processed video sets, classifications, participant registration information and system parameters in preparation for an exhibit. The system is then installed in a kiosk like manner and initialised. Patrons passing by the exhibit, enter their compilation preferences into the system and initiate a compilation run. DynaMix queues the uses a combination of Elm system parameters, patron compilation preferences, classification data and random number generation to automatically generate a dynamic screening of the compilation. As each unique compilation is dynamically screened, a consolidated video is copied and stored as a keepsake for the ‘film editor’ and for adjudication (the top three movies will be uploaded to the Internet with acknowledgements).
The DynaMix Art Installation application is but one component of many. It will take its place in a line-up of other existing software to provide the functionality required by the process to be followed during the Project (denoted by grey arrows in the following diagram).
The overall system comprises four sub-systems, one for each process step, namely;
1.Create and Recruit
Elm writes or acquires music for a project. In this Project, the song Shelter was written by Eric Bogle and was acquired for the Project, thanks to the kind permission of Eric.
Elm builds and makes available music resources for participant practice and recording.
Participating singers and musicians register to participate, and volunteer and paid professional helpers are recruited during this phase of the Project.
2.Record, Cleanse and Synchronise
Participants access the music resources provided to assist their practice. When ready, they then video record their rendition(s) and submit the video file(s) to Elm. For local participants, Elm facilitates video/audio recording sessions. Elm then manually and semi automatically pre-processes the videos to review, cleanse, synchronise and normalise each video recording.
3.Classify and Replicate
Elm manually classifies each video in terms of qualitative characteristics. Software utilities are used to automatically quantify objective characteristics in batch processes.
A commercial image processing firm then uses batch processes and render farm to standardise and replicate videos into layers ordered by descending resolution.
4.Exhibit
Elm loads the DynaMix with the pre-processed video sets, classifications, participant registration information and system parameters in preparation for an exhibit. The system is then installed in a kiosk like manner and initialised. Patrons passing by the exhibit, enter their compilation preferences into the system and initiate a compilation run. DynaMix queues the uses a combination of Elm system parameters, patron compilation preferences, classification data and random number generation to automatically generate a dynamic screening of the compilation. As each unique compilation is dynamically screened, a consolidated video is copied and stored as a keepsake for the ‘film editor’ and for adjudication (the top three movies will be uploaded to the Internet with acknowledgements).
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