Talk To Play Sujatha & Ingrid Marie

OUR PROJECT
Talk to play is an instrument that plays the piano while talking. There are two direct ways of measuring speach, either through volume or through frequency. We decided to use both of these for our instrument. As constantly changing the volume while speaking can be very tiresome, and doesn't really apply for any kind of useful use, we thought we would consider the input frequency as the "piano player".

We wanted our instrument to do something more than just playing the piano, so we thought about using something for the rythm. We decided to record a rythmic instrument for some short amount of time, and then repeatingly playing this while talking. This is also connected to the volume of the speach, as we thought it makes sense that higher volume should increase the beat.

Since the rythm is only playback, another instrument or any kind of sound can be used in the background instead.

Accomplished Tasks: - Managed to play the piano with the frequency of the talk - Managed to record some playback, and change the beat with the volume of the talk. Problems: Our main problem was to be able to control what the instrument was going to play. We tried to limit the play to all kinds of different scales and with different intervals, but we still didn't manage to find out how the frequency really works. The instrument can be slightly controlled by the volume, as the frequence tend to increase as the volume increase, but this really takes away the point with using the frequency. We still decided to stick with the frequency, as it gives out a bit more interesting music, and the volume is allready used for the rythm playback. Future Work: Even though our result isn't too good, we still see the possibility for our idea to be used in future work. If the music that comes out can be better controlled, it can be used as anything from background music and beat to Rap music to including some extra atmosphere in poetry readings. References: - Max43TutorialsAndTopics - MSP43:        -Had very good use of the tutorial example 13. "Record and play samples" Our Max Msp patch