Ethan Rountree

Attached are the final versions of my paper and poster

This week ive been working on revising my paper according to the feedback i got and suggestions from Xunfei. Ive been trying to polish out any remaining functionality issues and format it better for presentations.

This week I have been working on my paper both revising the submitted partial draft and adding the portions that were not done yet. I have also done some work on my project itself. I have been doing a lot of refactoring. I made it so all the variations I am testing can be turned … Read more

This week I: -worked on my paper draft -worked on fixing bugs in my software

-I created a large variation to my algorithm that spacializes the visualization based on the ratios just intonation ratio instead of being directly correlated to the frequencies. This involved implenting a new module that calculates the just intonation ratio and scales the sine wave visuals to that. -I created tables to use in my paper … Read more

This week I did the following tasks: -Met with Dave about the structure of my outline and my experimental results section -Met with Forrest to get feedback on my work. -Began to work on a new variation of my algorithm based on Forrest’s feedback -Read chapter 5 in writing for computer science

This week I accomplished several things: -Reconfigured the way my patch combines matrices to avoid issues I was having w crossfade -implenented horizontal movement after note press -Organized parts of my project into sub-patches and cleaned up some stuff -Implemented envelopes connected to sound and video out -Created an outline for my paper 

Here is what I worked on for my project this week: -Worked with poly tool to process two simultaneous notes. -Got it working but temporarily disabled the circle of fifths map table-Now midi messages are sent to two paths for separate notes. -Using xfade to combine matrices is not good, colors are still evenly distributed … Read more

I have gotten off to a relatively smooth start on my project. Xunfei is going to be my adviser and I have scheduled a meeting with her for tomorrow morning. I have prepared to present on my topic in class tomorrow. The majority of my time this week I spent starting my project implementation. I … Read more

This week I did a lot of research into how jitter works and how it communicates with max and msp objects. In the process I found a few more helpful sources to replace some of the less relevant related works that I have. The past couple of days I did some programming on a max … Read more

My proposal adviser will be Dave. We met last friday to talk about my project idea. one note he gave me was to be clear what parameters I will use to measure my success since my project is almost completely software designing as opposed to research. Over the next few weeks I need to revise … Read more

This week I accomplished these tasks: -found the rest of my 15 sources for my paper -Met with Xunfei to discuss my design outline -wrote my project proposal -Did a second pass of a few of my papers

This week I dedicated my time towards designing my proposal idea. After my literature review I decided I wanted to continue my audiovisual project. I read through the documentation for the jitter programming language to see what would be feasible to work on. Then I designed a basic architecture for how the synthesizer would convert … Read more

This week I made good progress in my research. Here are some of the things I have done: -Met with Forrest Tobey to discuss his past research involving motion tracking virtual instruments as well as visual capabilities of the Max/MSP/Jitter programming language -Condensed my research papers that I will be using and selected 8 for … Read more

My project ideas have been evolving since starting to research articles. My main fields of research have been in audiovisual synthesis, motion control for virtual instruments, and algorithmic music composition. I have found lots of articles including a good one by alumni Edward Ly that relates very directly. I think his project will be very … Read more

-I met with Kendall to get my ACM membership -I continued refining my ideas. -I talked with music professor Forrest Tobey about my ideas and projects that the music department is interested in.