Welcome to STORY TREES (online).
STORY TREES 1 & 2 runs smoothly on macOS and WINDOWS 10, but is not designed for mobile phones or tablets.
For best result: use the CHROME browser on a desk computer (or laptop) with at least 8GB of RAM (standard on newer devices). Other browsers: Firefox is buggy, and Safari can be slow (or not work at all on older systems).
READ ME << important :
When you first click to open the online exhibit, storytrees.github.io will make a request to use your webcam (if you don't see this prompt, as depicted in the first screen shot, clear your browser's cache & retry). The software cannot work properly
if you ignore or block the request.
Once you click on 'allow', another window will automatically open with 'loading' displayed in the top left hand corner of the screen. Depending on your internet speed & wi-fi bandwidth, it takes about 15 seconds (fibre) or approximately two-minutes (DSL) to load the STORY TREES content.
Watch this short video on how to use STORY TREES.
STORY TREES rewards patience & slow engagement. You can & should move around in front of your computer screen; your body & head will still be tracked by the webcam. Make sure the webcam camera is centred atop your display monitor. To adjust how the webcam software 'sees' you, tilt the screen (or your stand-alone webcam).
The more you look at any particular image, the blend of voices becomes richer and more nuanced. You can also click at any time--anywhere on the screen--to advance to the next group of storyboards. [note: Story Trees 2 is never the same way twice — voices are randomly associated with different pictures & panels--each time you visit, the voices shift position]. The screen sparkles are normal--watch how they track your movement.
Slowly look at each of the image panels to hear into the middle distance...
Headphones deliver a spatial audio experience, different from the 'sweet spot' with fixed speakers in a display monitor (bend your knees— listen to the sounds shift).
Click this link to load STORY TREES 1
Click this link to load STORY TREES 2
Keep in mind the sentiments you hear in STORY TREES 1 & 2 reflect an era that is quite different in tone from our present day. For context, the 1975 audio documentary & recordings that inspired the first exhibition are here (you can stream for free).
New documentation—pictures, print articles, profiles and so forth--will be added to the STORY TREES series from time to time. This scientific paper Illusory transformation from speech to song, explains how & why you hear audio illusions that surface and disappear in STORY TREES.
hurry up & go slow...
STORY TREES 1 & 2 runs smoothly on macOS and WINDOWS 10, but is not designed for mobile phones or tablets.
For best result: use the CHROME browser on a desk computer (or laptop) with at least 8GB of RAM (standard on newer devices). Other browsers: Firefox is buggy, and Safari can be slow (or not work at all on older systems).
READ ME << important :
When you first click to open the online exhibit, storytrees.github.io will make a request to use your webcam (if you don't see this prompt, as depicted in the first screen shot, clear your browser's cache & retry). The software cannot work properly
if you ignore or block the request.
Once you click on 'allow', another window will automatically open with 'loading' displayed in the top left hand corner of the screen. Depending on your internet speed & wi-fi bandwidth, it takes about 15 seconds (fibre) or approximately two-minutes (DSL) to load the STORY TREES content.
Watch this short video on how to use STORY TREES.
STORY TREES rewards patience & slow engagement. You can & should move around in front of your computer screen; your body & head will still be tracked by the webcam. Make sure the webcam camera is centred atop your display monitor. To adjust how the webcam software 'sees' you, tilt the screen (or your stand-alone webcam).
The more you look at any particular image, the blend of voices becomes richer and more nuanced. You can also click at any time--anywhere on the screen--to advance to the next group of storyboards. [note: Story Trees 2 is never the same way twice — voices are randomly associated with different pictures & panels--each time you visit, the voices shift position]. The screen sparkles are normal--watch how they track your movement.
Slowly look at each of the image panels to hear into the middle distance...
Headphones deliver a spatial audio experience, different from the 'sweet spot' with fixed speakers in a display monitor (bend your knees— listen to the sounds shift).
Click this link to load STORY TREES 1
Click this link to load STORY TREES 2
Keep in mind the sentiments you hear in STORY TREES 1 & 2 reflect an era that is quite different in tone from our present day. For context, the 1975 audio documentary & recordings that inspired the first exhibition are here (you can stream for free).
New documentation—pictures, print articles, profiles and so forth--will be added to the STORY TREES series from time to time. This scientific paper Illusory transformation from speech to song, explains how & why you hear audio illusions that surface and disappear in STORY TREES.
hurry up & go slow...
I followed your advice and took my time and I went from a disoriented state/experience to being drawn in to what was going on. I felt like I had a shift of consciousness (not quite the right words but as close as I can describe it). Something perceptually had to shift in me to accommodate what I was experiencing so that I could render what I was experiencing as ‘something'. This shift made me, I think maybe for the first conscious time in my life, aware of my perceptual world or rather how my perceptual apparatus shifts to accommodate what is in or offered by my perceptual field. Once oriented, the various senses that were evoked by the stories, sounds and images become somehow integrated, and therefore understandable. Prior to this re-orientation there was a lot of confusion. I suspect that with the feedback through the camera there was an active interaction going on such that my perceptual apparatus was interacting with the ‘program’ to reach some kind of syncing or at least some mutual awareness and responsiveness. Quite a remarkable experience for me.” — BW, educational psychologist
visit often >> your STORY TREES experience is never the same way twice.