So after two weeks of brainstorming we finally found a concept who has a value to Enschede. Our idea is to make an interactive musical experience, so that visitors of Enschede can heave their own musical experience in stead of just listening and watching other people singing and making music. The idea is to make... Continue Reading →
Our group consists of people with a multitude of skills. Alexandra is going to work on the graphic representation and design of the objects. Natalia is going to research different materials and building the installation. Vasil and Andro are going to do the technical part such as programming, soldering and installing. Vera (scrum master) is... Continue Reading →
The idea For our concept we wanted to use the festival “muziek in de straten” in Enschede as a starting point. For this festival we want to create an interactive musical experience, so that visitors of Enschede can heave their own musical experience in stead of just listening and watching other people singing and making... Continue Reading →
After we finalized our idea, it was a time to think of its look. We plan to have few different objects which will fit to the city and the festival’s theme “color”. To see what everyone wants, we decided to make separate mood boards and then try to see how it's possible to combine them. One of our themes were flowers (nature)... Continue Reading →
Along with Vasil, I started thinking about how we are going to sense people around the objects and with what sensors they're going to change the music. Our first idea was to use a IR distance sensor, however the IR sensor has a quite small measuring distance. A PIR was also not feasible as it... Continue Reading →
Today we had a conversation with our product owner Mark Boerrigter. We noticed that we were actually getting stuck on what would be our value. The idea was there, but we just didn't know which music activity within Enschede we could combine it with. Mark told us about the "Muziek in de straten" festival. This... Continue Reading →
Unfortunately it was not possible to stand on the spot near the tree, due to safety reasons. That is why Vera and I have looked for a new place today. We went to two stores to ask if we could exhibit in front of their store, but without success. One had no place and the... Continue Reading →
On the first day back we sat down and I realized we are struggling for a concept idea. I communicated my ideas of music and connecting people to my group mates and they liked these themes. So we decided to definitely stick with music, I brainstormed a lot of music installations with Alexandra and we... Continue Reading →
First week was intense. From home I came slightly bit later then quartile started, but right on time for the brainstorming session. There was million links and installation I looked for inspiration, some of them are saved in pinterest board. We had a lot of different ideas, and at the end of the first week we... Continue Reading →
We had to start thinking what we like and what we would work on, in order to come up with at least a direction for our project. Nata already joined us and I had informed Andro about everything we recieved as information from the brief and we called him on Skype. After some hours with... Continue Reading →
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