Living in Letters from Maren Henson on Vimeo.

The drawings on the wall are of each letter of the english alphabet. I have recorded the making of each drawing and ran them through a program called Max/MSP, this program allows for the piece to be interactive. Once a person is in front of any drawing, the movement triggers the program and plays the sound of that drawing.

Living in Letters Computer View from Maren Henson on Vimeo.

This video is from the view of the program Max/MSP that is guiding the installation. The small boxes on the right show the breakdown of each drawing and once a person is in front of it, the box fills to white. This shows which drawings are activated from the computer’s end and form that which sounds are playing in the space.