Week 4

In Class

• Écouter Exercise presentations and discussion of insights (30 minutes)
• Introduction to the final assignment: Furniture Music at the Lucid.Bar (Bart + Francesco)
• Introduction to Thing-Centeredness (Bart)
• Introduction to Max and Plugdata (Francesco)

Key Ideas

• Decentralized Systems — reflection on the exercise
• Furniture Music — the conceptual frame for the final event
• The Lucid.Bar as a site — sound in a shared social space

Homework — Pairs

This kicks off Assignment 2 — your Smart Thing.

Goal: understand your object, what would make it smart, and what it would sound like.

1. Pick an object from the Lucid.Bar Whitelist — it must have dynamic properties.
2. Conduct an object-centered study of your chosen object:
   • One-day object diary
   • Character analysis
   • Inter-thing correspondence
   • Thing-personification
3. Choose a sensor from the Lucid.Bar Whitelist that connects to how you see the object being smart.

Before Next Week

Install the following on your laptop before you arrive:

1. Max or Plugdata — Max needs a licence or the 30-day free trial. Plugdata is free, with fewer built-in objects
2. Arduino IDE — download latest version (2.x)
3. ESP32 — add board support in Arduino IDE: Preferences → Additional boards manager URLs → add Espressif URL, then install via Boards Manager

See Arduino IDE and ESP32 for step-by-step instructions.