In the formal exhibition, there will be two computers to present different materials and the details of them are as follows.

Computer 1:

Play the video and music to help viewers experience the theme.

• Display Video: 

Prologue (introduction) + Blur (including memory of faces and object scenes).

• Continuously Background Music：

Play real-time in Ableton Live.

Computer 2:

Focus on Viewers’ real-time Interaction

• Fade: 

Viewers should click a button on the laptop to take a photo first, then speak randomly to the microphone. The sound data and image are transmitted to the Max Patcher. The participant’s portrait will show on the screen, and some visual effects will appear on the screen when the participant is speaking.

Visual changes depend on the level of sound. When the visitor calls loudly, the image becomes relatively clear, while when the sound diminishes, the image becomes blurred. If the call disappears, the screen will gradually become blank.

We provide a poem as reading material to help participants get involved as follows:

By the boundless shores of Lethe, I seek your trace,Faces once clear, now blur in memory's breeze.Like dew in the morning sun, vanishing without a trace,Your smile, your gaze, with time, quietly flee from me.I reach out, trying to touch that fading shadow,But grasp only air, and a faint scent of melancholy.Alzheimer's, this silent thief,Steals our shared memories, bit by bit, from our world.There was a time, side by side, through seasons we trod,Now, I walk alone in this memory's barren land.Your name, I softly call, through thickening fogs,Your face, I struggle to recall, only to blur more with each attempt.Even if memories fade, love remains,In every dawn, every dusk.Alzheimer's may take away your memory,But it can never take away, our undying love within.

In twilight's gentle sway, amidst memories gray,Lie forgotten relics of a bygone day.A radio whispers melodies of yore,Its staticky voice echoing forevermore.Beside it, a television set, silent and still,Once a portal to dreams, now void of thrill.Images flicker, then fade into mist,Lost in the labyrinth of time's twist.A fan hums softly in the corner's embrace,Its blades spinning tales of a forgotten grace.Once a companion in sweltering heat,Now a silent sentinel in memory's retreat.A jar sits empty, its purpose unclear,Once filled with treasures now lost, my dear.Its glass walls hold echoes of laughter and tears,A vessel of stories from forgotten years.In the recesses of a mind now adrift,These objects linger, their memories swift.In their silent presence, a tale unfolds,Of lives once lived, now in shadows enfold.Oh, how time's cruel hand steals memories away,Leaving behind mere relics to sway.Yet in the heart's recesses, they shall forever gleam,Echoes of a life, like a forgotten dream.

• Vanish: 

First, the participant’s movement path was captured using the same real-time camera and overlaid with the part of the video, allowing the participant’s face to blend in among the different faces generated by the AI, creating the illusion of being lost. Finally, the participant in the frame drifts away with particles and the frame goes black.

Music Demo in Week8

Instead of the original plan of making different music for each part, we now plan to make a generative music that requires no control and also randomly plays some melody fragments. I plan to do it in Ableton Live, which will play independently of the video with a separate computer during the exhibition. The screen recording video below shows the current progress of music creation. You can see that Melody Clip is played randomly.

These MIDI Clips are converted from the AI text to Music loop in the previous blog.
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dmsp-process24/2024/03/18/week8-find-inspiration-with-ai-music-tools/

In that track, I set up the Random Midi Effect as well so that each Clip can shift to different notes every time. Later I will add more instruments and implement more variations to the music.

Full Version Music Update in Week9

This version added many voice samples generated by Text To Speech tools and the text materials are as follows.

This version added many voice samples generated by TTS tools, and their corresponding text is shown below.

1. Why do you keep asking the same questions? I've explained it many times
2. Mom, your memory is really getting worse.
3. Where did you put the key? This is already the third time
4. Can you stay by yourself for a while
5. I am your daughter
6. Why don't you remember me again?
7. Dad, why did you put the medicine in the refrigerator again?
8. Didn't we make an agreement?
9. I really can't understand why you are always so stubborn
10. I've told you many times
11. I really don't have time to help you find things every day
12. Why do you always forget to turn off the lights? I have to come here every time
13. Why you can’t do simple things well?
14. I can't stand your chaos anymore and I need to leave this room
15. Don't bother me, I don't have time for you
16. 妈，你能自己回房间待一会吗
17. Maman, tu peux aller seule dans ta chambre pendant un moment ?
18. 何度も言いましたから、何度も聞かないでください
19. Realmente no puedo entender por qué siempre eres tan terco.
20. आपका ऐसा करना वाकई बेवकूफी है
21. Папа, это действительно глупо с твоей стороны.
22. 당신은 나에게 이것을 여러 번 말했습니다!
23. Das hast du mir schon oft gesagt!