Format No. 1
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Foo/Skou proudly present Format No. 1 - a novel optical sound experience that consists of an iPhone application and a visual score. Download the visual score and turn graphics into sound! Or look for visual patterns elsewhere and explore how everything in the world can be musical.
Format No. 1 is inspired by optical sound experiments from history and existing notation systems.
Download the visual score and learn more about Format No. 1 at formatno1.com
How the Format No. 1 app works:
- converts a real-time camera feed to sound
- reads on a vertical scan line
- The user can scan in any direction and at any speed he/she wishes to
- Translates black pixels to a range of frequencies in pentatonic scale (From low pitch in the bottom of the screen to high pitch in the top)
- is open-source and created with openFrameworks
The application has been developed by artists and musicians Louise Foo and Martha Skou in collaboration with programmer Johann Diedrick.