Temp Ex Daily: 4; Jaycee, Electric Green / Space – Black

Day four of my event score:

1. When programming visual digital art, at the first point where you decide to use a color, ask someone else to pick the color for you.
2. Have them explain their choice.
3. Dedicate the color to them.

I reached out to my friend Jaycee over Facebook Messenger in order to pick my color.

Event Score Daily Practice: Day Four Jaycee

I have been practicing basic techniques with Unity, and today was playing with audio analysis and reactivity (shoutout to ITP alum AV for coming to do a workshop! His example code helped me out here). My first sketch was making a sphere expand in accordance to the volume levels of a sound. There seems to be a bit of a delay, which I will need to troubleshoot. But besides all that, I wanted to give this a bit of a color and Jaycee obliged.

My approach was to only give her the audio and not show her anything. After giving it a listen, she picked black and electric green (also asking if it was ok to pick two colors). The electric green was RGB 24, 247, 91, and I interpreted the black as 255,255,255 after she explained her choices.

“It sounds futuristic and extraterrestrial. So space – black.” I figured the blackness of space could be a solid 255,255,255. She went on.

“I love green, and so my initial thoughts before the prompt was to send you my favorite shade of green (Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Album). But I kept with green after hearing the prompt. Because black and green are what I picture when I think of inside a computer. Also, I hope tech in the future is green.”

I added a black plane behind the sphere to give Jaycee her the blackness of space, and lowered the lights in Unity. This keeps part of the skybox visible, but only slightly. Hopefully this gives an impression of space, as opposed to what might otherwise appear as a black background.

Jaycee picked a color she called Electric Green:RGB 24, 247, 91
and space – black, which I interpreted as 255,255,255

Thanks again to AV for sharing the workshop materials, and credit to Music Radar for hosting modular synth samples available to the public for download. You can find the soundpack here and I used loop 29.