Organic Oscillator: Experiments using Natural Oscillation Sources from Audiences

Our idea of Organic Oscillator is a combination of the mechanism of a table lookup oscillator and natural oscillation sources from audiences. Based on this idea, we conduct a series of audio and visual experiments, starting from using a single natural oscillation source in the human body to multiple ones from the audiences. Shifting from a singleparticipant paradigm to a group-participants paradigm, we summarize our development of audience sensing apparatuses and identify the need of an abstract audience representation to extend composition possibilities and interactive system design. Informed by our experiments, the absence of the abstract audience representation leads to a gap that limits us to express data relationships among multiple natural oscillation sources from the audiences. To advance our research, we present a novel symbolic audience model that abstracts audience members as objects and their responses as processes in a systematic perspective. We envision works created using this model may allow us to explore new forms built using this model’s new conceptual strategies of inter-participant relationship, synchronization, and collective expression.