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Animation as an Instrument: Designing a Visual-Audioizer Prototype

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2020, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Design.
This paper discusses the process of making a “visual-audioizer” prototype in which I designed and created as a new method for the computer musician and animator to produce audio. The visual-audioizer is a patch I created in Max in which traditional animation techniques, in tandem with basic computer vision tracking methods, can be used as a tool to allow the visual time-based media artist to produce audio and eventually, music. Using this tool with the animated form provides real-time feedback within a dynamic locale constrained to the software and allows the user to hear their visual creations within a sonic setting. For the user unfamiliar with animation techniques and computer music, an experiential media system in which animation, audiovisuals, and exploration are considered synonymous. To the animator, an alternative method/consideration to letting the implicit temporal-knowledge of motion to apply this system as a means of creating audio. For the computer musician, a new way to learn about animation and the role of animation techniques as musical instrument. Through explorations in the realm of graphic aesthetics of scale, movement, patterns, and pictorial ambiguity, aspects of what can be described visually perceptible and within an audibly comparable setting play a key role when manipulating audio creation. Using the visual-audioizer, animators and computer musicians will find new ways to experience and create their audiovisual media through means of drawing and interacting with the tool itself.
Kyoung Swearingen (Advisor)
Marc Ainger (Committee Member)
Matt Lewis (Committee Member)
123 p.

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  • Olsen, T. J. (2020). Animation as an Instrument: Designing a Visual-Audioizer Prototype [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595515799106444

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Olsen, Taylor. Animation as an Instrument: Designing a Visual-Audioizer Prototype. 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595515799106444.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Olsen, Taylor. "Animation as an Instrument: Designing a Visual-Audioizer Prototype." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595515799106444

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)