WEEK #10

Next week, we had to send draft of our thesis. BLOGS ARE USEFUL!

If you are a student and read this, reporting what you do, how and why in your blogs is so useful for the thesis. I just had to copy paste all my previous report and the thesis was almost done. 

Last week I applied with this project to an open call from the gallery B39 at Bucheon for the exhibition Prectxe: Showcase Vol.2 and I had the chance to be selected. It will be held in June. I will probably know the exact schedule next week.

So now I have to prepare for the exhibition.

I was finally able to implement subtitles to my project but I had to get rid of the Doppler effect causing time stretch on the audio and desynchronization of the subtitles.

Subtitle Capture

Visualization of the voices' position.

WEEK #9

I organized the 3D space, giving a dystopian deconstructed architectures feel. The king Sejong at the center of the set. I connected all the elements to him with a lines. To give more details and refinement, I added bounding cubes around the scans and a small title reference.

The memories sounds is placed randomly and is binaural, so the audience can look for it. When it gets very close to one source, it can perceive a dot. This help finding the audio source and get the full sound loudness and understandability by getting closer to it.

WEEK #7 & #8

PART  I

It took me a week to prepare all the scans for Unreal Engine 4. Once done, I imported them into the scene. I had to change some lighting settings to make the objects display better.

I then tried to compile the project. It was useful to see if there were any bugs, if it wasn't too heavy for the computer or if the quality was good. 

I was satisfied of the overall performances and look.

PART II

It took me another week to fully develop the sound atmosphere of the piece.

Out of all the memories I got, I had to organize and shorten them, I ended up with a total of 35 testimonies.

I was fortunate enough to have a friend who helped me arrange the Korean versions. I've then sent these texts to the voice to speech Naver API which returned me voices.

The next stage was to create the music, edit the samples and add the voices. I've chosen to also create an audio only version of this project that is listenable on SoundCloud.

A capture of the timeline of the Ableton project.

Here a link to the script of all the memories : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQZP6Te2GfTwuWjNR2rrw96MGkDrRXBJbeYk8rM_V2Y/edit