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Jochem van der Hoek

Design Art Technology
Bachelor
Jochem van der Hoek, This Meeting Could Have Been an Email, photographer Eva van Boxtel
Jochem van der Hoek, This Meeting Could Have Been an Email, photographer Eva van Boxtel

This Meeting Could Have Been an Email

I have always been intrigued by office supplies. By their calming plainness, their lack of content, and their universality. There seems to be an appearance of productivity that has extended from professional workplaces into our homes.

Even though I never had an office job, when I use my laptop to make music or watch a movie I do this in a standardized system of files, folders and rectangular windows. A system that is originally designed for- and directly refers to office environments. As I am writing this text I am using software from an application suite called Office.

My project is inspired by the realization that my computer is my office and my musical instrument. I have created a desk setup that combines seemingly boring elements from the digital- and physical workplace with the spontaneity of music to question the standardization but also to find new appreciation for standardized things by using them in a different way.

The setup contains three element that I invite you to play with:

Snare Drum Controlled Clipart Slideshow

A piezo sensor detects when the snare drum is played, the signal is converted to MIDI (a protocol that is used for musical instruments to send and receive musical data), the MIDI message is sent to my laptop and triggers a slideshow of images that I collected from old clipart CD-ROMs.

Sticky Note Compositions

When you press the footswitch the current image of the clipart slide-show gets exported as a PFD and is sent to the printer that automatically prints the image on a sticky note. Stick the sticky note on the wall to contribute to the evolving sticky note compositions.

Keysmash Jazz

The keyboard is controlling an abstract text editor that stacks the typed characters on top of each other to create visual compositions, at the same time for every keypress a MIDI message is sent to control a soware piano or drum kit. You can use caps lock to change the text color and switch between instruments.

 

Jochem van der Hoek, This Meeting Could Have Been an Email, photographer Eva van Boxtel
Jochem van der Hoek, This Meeting Could Have Been an Email, photographer Eva van Boxtel

 

Jochem van der Hoek, This Meeting Could Have Been an Email, photographer Eva van Boxtel

 

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