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Leading up to the presentation, I'm already going to have my assets / main infographics established in that week's blog debrief, so for this post I was going to go over some of the more high-concept stuff I had in mind. Long story short, the Arduino project is going to have a bank comprised of multiple bite-sized compositions that transition into one another in sort of a jazz fusion / liquid DnB style to help keep the pieces modular without making the switches sound too jarring. Things like specific composition to play and instrumentation vary based on a limited number of inputs. I wasn't planning on using a ton of inputs to work the whole thing, instead relying on a smaller amount but using some programmatic smoke and mirrors to extrapolate certain factors: for example, a relatively consistent way to detect if the Arduino is being held by a human (as opposed to resting on a flat surface) is having a vertical velocity, detected via accelerometer. It's highly unlikel...

Note: class was canceled for Monday, 11 Sept. due to Hurricane Irma. Nothing of note to report at the moment - still brainstorming...

Nothing of note to report at the moment - still brainstorming...

With the bulk of the homework out of the way since this course is a repeat, I don't have as much to go over as I would otherwise, although I did make a post documenting the Throwie lab. The project proposal (still a few weeks out) I'm considering most strongly at this point is doing something with software-based FM synthesis, but using physical hardware for the input and output (ex. a MIDI keyboard and the sounds returned), likely using an Arduino as a mediator. Software is generally my proficiency over hardware, and software-based synthesis is something I have a (tangential) familiarity with that would serve as a jumping-off point. More specifically, I feel like it would give me a frame of reference that would allow me to establish some deadlines and content quantities while still being able to realistically meet them by the end of the semester compared to something less familiar or more ambitious. Some elements of the project would also be an extrapolation of the "no...