Jan 25, 2010
Got a projector this afternoon and tried playing with the Processing app I put together to take notes about music on an animated timeline. My projector was stuck low to the ground inside a heavy A/V cart, however I realized it would be ideal to have the projector on the ceiling and pointing down at a table to be able to work horizontally. Drawing on a perpendicular surface fairly low to the ground was no fun. Also, I’d like a jog wheel so I can quickly scrub back and forth. I kept getting the feeling, as I was drawing, that it wasn’t that revolutionary to have a vertical line and time code scrolling across my page. But once I shut the projector off I realized how much richer the simple animation had made my note-taking experience. I feel like having the soundline was incredibly helpful for understanding the structure of the song (see those thick black lines? they represent different acts in the piece. look how differently they are proportioned!), but as always I wish I was at this point a week ago to see where I could take this into the realm of color, rather than just sort-of-random marker scribbles.

Got a projector this afternoon and tried playing with the Processing app I put together to take notes about music on an animated timeline.

My projector was stuck low to the ground inside a heavy A/V cart, however I realized it would be ideal to have the projector on the ceiling and pointing down at a table to be able to work horizontally. Drawing on a perpendicular surface fairly low to the ground was no fun. Also, I’d like a jog wheel so I can quickly scrub back and forth.

I kept getting the feeling, as I was drawing, that it wasn’t that revolutionary to have a vertical line and time code scrolling across my page. But once I shut the projector off I realized how much richer the simple animation had made my note-taking experience. I feel like having the soundline was incredibly helpful for understanding the structure of the song (see those thick black lines? they represent different acts in the piece. look how differently they are proportioned!), but as always I wish I was at this point a week ago to see where I could take this into the realm of color, rather than just sort-of-random marker scribbles.

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