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'''My controller will control the chords, filtering and and rhythm of an electronic song made with synthesizers in Ableton. The goal is to have the music be calm and pleasant while I am in a calm relaxed state breathing deeply and steadily with slow heart rate and progressively get darker, more off beat and distorted as I become more anxious. 
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''Similar or Inspiring pieces relating to breath and heart beat:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLxrxGMMDo 
INSIDE-OUT is a source performance art piece by Andre Borges. The artist has a task mask on, wires attached to his chest and his hand is inside a box. We hear his breath and heart are amplified. Around 4 minutes in rattling and clanging sounds enter the room from an objects to the side of the performer. I appreciate the off-beat heart beat driving the piece forward and interacting with the other sounds heard. 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Yoga-Breathalyzer/
Wind Sensor Used for Breath

http://gordophone.blogspot.com/2013/01/breath-sensing-101.html
Breath Sensor with Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8fsMcMY2do 
In We Disappear (2nd half of Youtube V=video), the industrial sounds John Hopkins uses and the way he constantly manipulates the samples I admire. He keeps a relatively consistent chord profession but portrays it very differently depending on the percussive sounds laid over and additional processing effects used. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWixdA2xTSs
Marina Abramovic & Ulay- Breathing In / Breathing Out (Death Itself) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMbjnTJCHM 
Controlling a 4-story pipe organ with the Kinect- Ableton triggering ideas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC9XRpCOO6g
Holly Herdon- Breathe

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U_fN7NtSho 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pn_b7OUO6I
Robert Henke- using Granulating parameters

''Other Inspiring Performance Art 
''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omDK2Cm2mwo&list=PLB9B4A00FC70FD6E3&index=35
RYOJI IKEDA : THE TRANSFINITE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU&list=PLB9B4A00FC70FD6E3&index=13

Technology out there already
USB Breath Controller- http://www.tecontrol.se/products/usb-midi-breath-controller
BC3A
Microsoft Band - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvjulEJH9w

''Things I need to have done for a minimal viable product:
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Have the breath, heart and body sensors synced with  Ableton parameters with a flexible song created. 

''Things that you want to have done by the final deadline:
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All steps in the To Do list below.

''Things that would be nice to have if I had unlimited time:
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Have accompanying visualizer responding to heart and breathing rate. 



''Necessary to make this idea happen:
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	•	Build the breath sensor by cutting a hole in a mask which covers my nose and mouth  and attaching a tube. At the open end of the tube I will put a pressure sensor  (Barometric Sensor Breakout) 
	•	Attach pulse sensor and accelerometer to Arduino. 
	•	Make MAX patch which reads heart and breathing data. Record and observe the  changes in Data in different states to understand correlation with anxiety. 
	•	Mack calculations to simplify this data into on and off message triggers 
	•	Have these triggers change specific aspects of song. eg: if heart rate is increasing  after 10 seconds, shift chord quality. 
	•	Create conditions. e.g.: if amount of oxygen is increasing and is intervals between  breaths are regular, play steady rhythm. If oxygen levels increase but breath timing irregular, then start to swing rhythm or play more syncopated beats. If oxygen levels are low and the breath timing is fast, the beats will become distorted or more randomized. 
	•	Test out conditions to see what works 
	•	Build 4 ft sq. cage and attach mask and heart sensors 
	•	Attach accelerometer to a belt or the side of cage 
	•	Make separate MAX patch for accelerometer data to be sent to Ableton to trigger loud  crashing and scary samples 
	•	Attach additional pressure sensors to cage to use to make a slider for a track which can play breath and heart sounds imitating mine
Cage sensors > Arduino > MAX > Ableton

 parts I need to make it:

For Breath:
• Barometric Sensor Breakout - T5403- pressure sensor which measures absolute pressure of surround air
• 1 ft plastic or metal tubing For Heart Rate:
	•	SEN-11574 Pulse Sensor 
	•	AD8232 Single Lead Heart Rate Monitor SEN-12650? Maybe... For Sharp Movements 
	•	RedBot Sensor - AccelerometerSEN-12589 
	•	Muscle Sensor v3 KitSEN-11776 - possibly instead of accelerometer Ascetics 
	•	Metal bars, or thick metal sheet for cage 
	•	Door hinges and lock (possibly sensor for lock?) 
	•	Face mask for mouth and nose 
	•	Flexiforce Pressure Sensor - RTL-11380- for direct musical controls inside the cage  (if necessary)

http://moderndevice.com/product/wind-sensor/
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12650 
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11574

accelerometer https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12589

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This Weeks Goals:

1) Set up wind and heart sensor to Arduino

2)Program Arduino to respond to sensors

2) Create Max for Live patch which triggers Ableton samples

4) Create Max patch for altering parameters


Weekend Goals: 

5) Construct song

6) Set up/ add Accelerometers to cage which trigger different notes on Granulator based on different changes in speed

Next Week:

Fine tune parts of song