Boxes

DandyBerry is now made up of 3 different sizes of boxes, each corresponding to what's inside them. The original square base hosts the speakers, with a new 18"x30" box type housing the microphones and thirdly, a larger square box with one side open, to allow people to walk inside the bubble-wrapped boxes. The result will diversify the volumes and voids, as well as allow people to experience how fun it is to be inside these boxes, something we discovered very early on.


The following plan will be used as a "working drawing" for the remainder of the planning process:

Light Prototype

Mike is currently working on a second light prototype with 3 different colours of LED that respond to volume and frequency, so a high pitch sound would trigger different lights than a lower pitched sound. We also discussed positioning the 3 different lights in a way that forms an anamorphic pattern, aligning from a particular viewpoint and forming an image of some kind.

Pure Dandy

Our friend Etienne Noreau-Hebert has been working on the software that will be handling the audio input and output. He's using PureData, a fairly minimalist program that works with lines and boxes which direct the audio. We just love the flowchart-like diagrams that it produces:



We're testing the setup very soon with only the audio equipment. In addition to debugging, we're looking forward to how interesting the bare guts of DandyBerry will look. Picture Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet in a room with Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

Zone C Independent Project

DandyBerry's project info and promotional image is up and running on the Nuit Blanche Website. DandyBerry is project number 16 at the Dominion Parking Lot, 100 Lynn Williams Street. DandyBerry is suitable for all ages.

More Prototypes

A big thanks to our friends Calais Cervetti and Mike Lanctot, who have been graciously lending their expertise. Mike is working on a sound-responsive LED fixture driven by an Arduino platform. More on that soon...

Retrospect 2

Some old preliminary renderings:

Prototype 2

Assembly: Bubblewrap, Vapour barrier, 2x2 wood frame.
The vapour barrier was added as a stiffening sub-surface for the bubblewrap, and it added a layer of translucency.