Development of the Idea

Our idea has come along a lot since we first came up with it a few days ago.

The slant we decided to put on it to make it more original was to base the concept of our idea around the theme of feelings. In the first week our lecturers asked us what do we want the user to feel, with this idea the user can feel whatever they want to feel (they can choose from a selection of feelings for example angry, sad, happy etc). We plan to convey these feelings by letting the user interact with different genre's of audio/music i.e. heavy metal for angry etc.

How is the project going to work??

Well for example taking the genre of Happy, and that the user has decided to play the drums from our instrumental floor, a happy song (upbeat and relaxing) would be playing in the background. However the song would be minus the drum element that we would have subtracted from the song, we will take the complete drum part to the song and slice it up into small segments (parts), we will then encode all of these segments into a sequence that the user would have to reproduce by physically standing on the drum section of our instrumental floor and stepping on the parts of the drum that light up to keep the sequence going and the song flowing.

If it is the happy genre that is selected, the song/sequence would be nice and slow and easy to keep the happy feeling flowing. We will explore a lot more feelings that can be expressed through this means. For example if the user wants to feel energetic/active we could have a nice fast paced song and a rapid moving sequence to make the user move quickly.

We will research this area a lot more and see what else we can incorporate in. We are excited about this new idea and feel strongly that it is original enough to get the go ahead from our presentations, with a bit of luck...!!