Working Draft

things to sift through:

• Creating a chord verses one note at a time // polyphonic
  – how to have notes stack on top of one another / play in accumulating method to create a chord verses one at a time

• Displaying Musical Note Letter
  – how to have the note name display when firefly is clicked

• Limiting caught firefly  XY values to jar how to restrict x,y inital values of fireflies to be out of jar // (sometimes loads over it?)

Idea: 

After diving through some open datasets for bird migrations, I decided it would be better to go for idea #2 of musical fireflies first, and revisit the bird migration study another time in the near future. I thought it would be fun to create a chord building experience, where with each firefly you catch (mouseClicked), the firefly enters the jar and plays a note (like middle C). Collect 3 to build a chord (C,E,G).

I’m looking at using either Boolean Logic (is the firefly in or out of the jar for tone to play) or maybe splicing and pushing between 2 arrays?

References:

Used a website called Physics of Music Notes to help me know what frequency to use for the p5.js sound library Oscillator. Once the interaction is set,  Maybe in a 2.0 version can try tone.js? It was fun sifting through their different demos ❤

Thinking about Arrays  / Revisiting Coding train videos:

3.4 – Boolean Logic

6.2 – Classes in Javascript

7.4 – Mouse Interaction w/ Objects – p5.js

7.5 – Removing Objects from Arrays 

Helpful examples:

• Jasmine’s Mouse interaction with objects example 
• P5.js’ “Song” example