Meeting #16

Meeting #16 /  Friday, 16 May, 2008
Library, Republic Polytechnic – 5:30PM
Jon, Melvin, Sam, & Ryan 

Midpoint Presentation

Meeting Agenda:
- revising roles and responsibilities
- list down and organize all research and exploration, reference artists
- documentation and weblog? list down how we have been / intend to using it
- issue on equipment loaning from STA
- issue on 5.1 systems (hiring of setup, types of speakers)
- finalizing of the linear concept (blueprint)
- revising project timeline
- what’s next? (production, acquiring of equipment and space)
- NUS updates

Roles & Responsibilities:
- Samantha: Dolphin Researcher & Assistant Producer
- Ryan: Technical Researcher & Underwater Acoustics Researcher
- Melvin: Producer & Foley artist
- Jon: Concept director, Sound Designer, & Webmaster
- Wenxun: Field Recordist & Audio engineer

Audio Processing Experimentation:
- Book VISTA lab next week

Making Sounds Sound Underwater:
- Low pass filter
- Reverb
- More dense sounding

Exhibition:
- Visuals from laptop can be abstract
- Projectors a better alternative to laptops
- Use room’s projector for the main chaos scene
- Possibility of abstract images in the main scene
- Last station four screen: Sushi, Hanger, News, Celebs
- Five laptops, Five iMacs – Each have own sound
- Save on one full 5.1 system (idea changed, still need 5.1 x 3)
- Consider if we can borrow iMacs from STA
- Have a 2nd room, beside for the hanger scene
- Dark room, no visuals, total darkness
- Sound only
- Blocking of exit sign light
- Look up on the possibility of acquiring those two rooms

Hiring of Equipment:
- check with City Music for 3 5.1 systems (speakers, amps, etc.)