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Hi Tristan,

Thanks for sending over your ideas for MUS303.  I would suggest that the first two are the strongest and have greater potential for creating something interesting.

I would suggest that you forget about the third idea.

Your first idea is a strong one - there is a lot of history in using gloves as input in computer music and interaction ever since MIDI was available. You have a good approach here - the angle of instruments for "non-musicians" is a strong one.  there are interesting ways in which you can approach the interaction using various technologies and there is a good amount of attention to the detail of the sound that comes out - so there is plenty to work on!

Your second idea is also very strong - this idea is slightly more unique in terms of dealing with song structures and content. Applying certain cut up techniques and rules from chance has a good history for your research. you can certainly deal with creating phrases / strings of text in Max in an automatic writing style too. What you would need to think through if you took this project into the second term would be what the final aim would be in terms of sound - would you create a song?

Both of these ideas are good enough to run at this stage and it would be best if you simply chose which was the most appealing to you at this point and write it up as a proposal for Friday. If you really can't decide between them then submit for both of them and you could do a bit of both by the end of the term but this is slightly more work for you!

david

13th Nov