Mark/RATasks

Virtual Meditative Walk

Equipment - Equipment Needed | Conduct research on the following item(s):

  wireless headphones: noise cancelling useful for cutting out treadmill noise, 
  put mike in for communicating with measurer / reduce hospital noise

- CONTACT Karon MacLean re: headphone booties

- Howard has a bunch of speakers: full range (8) mount on array

Sound Assets

Sound Effects:

- Record binaural sounds of an actual environment - Record sound of footsteps

Music:

- Compose Music and separate out the rhythm section from the main melodies - Mix according to the research conducted - create a appropriate listening frequency curve

Biofeedback

TWO PARAMETERIZATIONS (visual: fog/ sound1/ sound 2)

   (data isn't driving anything at moment)
   have a plugin that reads it
   what do we want to do with the data? (Ari's explanation: externalizing certain aspects of your body & makie them explicit, 
          become aware of cause & effect in order to influence those subtle aspects)
   1. PARAMETERIZATION: VISUAL: FOG: the more the immersant/participant relaxes, the less fog
   2. PARAMETERIZATION TWO: MUSIC 
       OPTIONS
   music: the deeper the meditative state, the more sounds you hear, the more you are meditating
   subtle environmental sounds, the more you focus on the environment, the clearer, more detailed the osund
   a) biofeedback that would control a filter: at first, subtle, then open up a lowpass filter
   b) track for biofeedback milestones
   c) positional audio
   BIOFEEDBACK MUSIC: specific compositional elements: control tempo (anthroporcybersyncronicity in virtual enironments rhythm & intimacy
   immersion is influence by tempos to match what heart rate is ("interlocking rhythmn")
   polyrhythms: driven by HRV, treadmill
   how to do in f-MOD, plug-in square tangle
   study re: Maureen (speeding up visual cues, made people go faster)
   relationship between music & heartrate: 
- Mark has environment set up on machine, is researching what kind of audio engine (how many tracks do we have access to)
   Mark: music & biofeedback book
   Mark
   TRACK 1: LOW PASS FILTER FOR SOUND EFFECTS BIOFEEDBACK, rhythm & tempo
   TRACK 2: will record sounds for nature, composition
   dandelion fluff EQ (frequency)

Unity

- Research Audio Engine built into Unity - Youtube Videos - Books - Possible courses? MDM? UBC?

Additional Action Items

Contact faculty member in Vermont. Send the researcher in Vermont an email to introduce Diane to get discussions rolling and to keep in touch. Asking her a question that requires a brief answer  from time to time is a good method.