PART II: SELFIE IN SOUND
Dates: October 28th- December 9th, 2015
Class type & Size: Music class- Hip-Hop, Middle School ( MS 136) 8th grade, 23 students.
Duration: 6 workshops
Selfie in Sound is a series of artistic educational workshops that combines technology, data and music. It translates students’ face recognition data (generated by computers to identify faces in digital photographs), into a combined abstract portrait, represented as a musical sound composition.
Each sound composition represents one student’s unique ‘Faceprint’ data (Eg: 344707b2690ae8962007612495619a
Students learned about privacy and social media and gained an understanding of artistic, technological, musical and mathematical concepts through the translation of data into a musical hip hop sound composition.
The project was completed at the end of 2015.
Selfie in Sound, session 1: