Mitch has expressed interest in click generated or possibly hovering generated tones. For this I know we need to create a tone library. While we are figuring this out, I’m brainstorming ideas as to how this can be blended into something poetic or silly:
- holding down the mouse or even just hovering in a blank color field would cause a note to play and the note would only play if the person on the other end were also holding down their mouse or hovering in the same area. There would be a small text line or some color shift which would indicate when another person is present.
- The tones in this first concept could be randomly spaced throughout the page leading the participants to be able to play a song should they work out the invisible scale (could this be done using invisible divs as buttons)?
- Could tones be associated with key strokes? or even random sounds or random words? Could you find your way around a new language to try to communicate with another participant? Random questions could pop up on the screen for you to ask each other (envisioning Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra type language).
- Can this be site specific? If so, I’d love to take the FBI surveillance state to the level of wildlife monitoring. The camera would always be on but you’d need to turn on a spotlight at night.
- The button could also turn on my big read dot spotlight and project it onto my room. It could be in my kitchen or bedroom. If the spotlight comes on, I can’t leave the room but I have to stay in the room with it but I don’t have to let it hit me. I’m gonna do this possibly for my final now that I am writing this out.
- The buttons could go between Mitchell’s and my room and play a terrible song in each other’s room whenever we want it to. This idea might be my favorite collaborative idea.