Izma Shabbir
Final Sequencer
November 11, 2024
Arcade Sequencer, but chill https://youtu.be/AdWpmQX4pa8
Instructions
This sequencer utilizes the four key arrows, up, down, left, and right. You just press them.
The inspiration for this sequencer came from Dance Dance Revolution, an at-home arcade game I used to play with my friends in elementary school. These arcade games were also a huge part of a horrible movie with a cult following, The Kissing Booth. It felt attainable and I gravitated towards the straightforward geometries. With the sequencer, my main difficulty came from motivation and time constraints. I felt a bit overwhelmed with the political state of the country as well as Stanford (in terms of grad student labor unions), and couldn't devote as much time as I probably would have at another part of the quarter. I felt a bit more familiar with the coding frameworks, and I felt like I could troubleshoot faster than on the previous assignment. I really enjoyed thinking about interactions, and making the move from mouse hovers, my previous milestone, to keyboard inputs. I think that change forced me to really understand the mechanics of my code and my ultimate goal with the sequencer. This sequencer is made up of a single class that comprises all the shapes, and the code pulls on different shapes through various if statements. Each if statements specifies a keyboard input, color change, and sound frequency. This allowed me to manipulate the sequencer on a shape level, giving me more control over each part. Much thanks, as always, goes to Kunwoo and Andrew, for walking me through various options and helping me write my code. Also, thanks to Mollie Redman for being my emotional support and helping me de-bug everything from lines of codes to why my Blackhole speakers may not be working.
Izma Shabbir
Milestone 2B
October 31, 2024
A day at the arcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD7q-_nJNPQ
Milestone 2A
October 25, 2024
3 Inspirations:
Earliest known musical instruments: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=590
Fibbonacci Music Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aIf4WUCNZU
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/fibonacci-spirals
Typatone: https://typatone.com/
Programming: https://www.tiktok.com/@corndogwilly/video/7358941827392703790?lang=en
Dance Dance Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD7q-_nJNPQ
My three ideas for a sequencer come from inspiration from an organ, a fibonacci sequence, and a calculator. For all of them, I want to include 10 parallel tracks with every even track (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) to have a synthesized sound.
Sketches: