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AlbexOne

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  • People Involved: Albin Karlsson, Alex Olwal
  • Created On: January 31, 2010

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We unfortunately love to make things a bit complicated... In this case we took the opportunity to bridge one of the APIs (Echo Nest) up there in the abstract cloud, into a physical, mechanical structure, that rotates and creates permanent visualizations of the track data on various surfaces. An interesting blend of digital and analogue techniques! The details: Echo Nest Java API is used to analyze songs on a PC. The data is parsed and sent over WiFi to an Android 2.1 phone (Google Nexus One), The appropriate control signals are generated on the phone and sent over Bluetooth to a microcontroller. Microcontroller sends the appropriate control signals to a custom-built (see pics!) mechanically rotating arm, with a radially moving axis, so that we can cover a full circle with ink!

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This is aMechanical Echo Nest Manifestation. Echo Nest analysis is used to generate permanant visualizations of the track data.