320C 2021 Joss Project

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Project Proposal

Create a plugin which performs "color sonification," using the colors of a video to modulate an accompanying piece of music/audio. The RGB values of the average color of each frame will be used as inputs into audio effects, effectively creating a parametric mapping between video color and audio manipulation.

Structure & Timeline

  1. (By End of Week 4): Create script (most likely in Python) which takes a video file as input and outputs three "audio" tracks to be imported into a DAW for use with plugin.
    • Each frame of the video will be subjected to a "color averaging" algorithm
    • Average color will be broken down into its RGB values, one value per track.
    • For initial purposes, restricting project to 24fps video and 48000Hz sampling rate for best compatibility
  2. (By End of Week 6): Design a plugin that uses a single track's information as a "side chain" to control multiband EQ setting specified by user.
    For example, the "Green" track's values might control how much of the EQ'ing is applied at any time. A very green frame of video would fully apply the user's EQ preset. Question: in this case, would a very magenta (= max R and B, least green) frame apply a "negative" or "inverse" of the user's "green" EQ preset?
    • Will likely build off of Faust EQ demo.
    • Need to figure out how to get audio input to "automate" between settings in a non-destructive way.
  3. (By End of Week 8): Implement a structure that takes three input tracks as side-chains to three plugins, contained within one single plugin.
    • Create two layers of GUI options:
      • For each color, what is the effect (straight from Faust library or with small modifications) user wants to apply?
        • What is the most effective way to load plugins into a plugin?
      • For a given effect that a user has paired with a color, how will the user select which exposed parameter of that effect to "side chain" color info to?
        • Does the user additionally need to set a max and min value for the audio effect parameter to correspond with max and min RGB values?
  4. (By End of Week 10 / Presentation Date): Refine GUI, testing, creating demonstrations/documentation.