Radio Chthulucene 87.9 FM

6/7/2024

subconscious by Maximiliano Hernandez | VIS 147A

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I believe that it is our Subconscious that directs us in this world and causes us to do the things we do. Our Subconscious is our true selves.

With both fate and our Subconscious guiding us through this confusing world, we are just a tool for them to wield.

So for this project I wanted to let my subconscious and the world guide me.

It first started with the case that my Radio Station is in. I had originally bought a box from the “Dollar Tree” which I for some reason misplaced, and without a car I had to improvise. So I went to my work space in my room and saw a lego set I had been wanting to get rid of for a while. The lego set was the Mandalorian “Dark Trooper Attack”. It was a set that my first love had given me and built with me. It was a set that I had been sad over many times. It was a set that I needed to get rid of to move past that chapter of my life. So I destroyed it and built something new. I believe that this was my subconscious allowing me to grow and move past the past and into the future.

I got to use my creativity to shape it anyway I wanted, which took me back to my childhood. When I was a child I spent all of my time playing with Legos, it was not until I came to college that I had to stop playing with Legos. College changed me, I felt as if I could not be me. I had stopped liking Star Wars because people did not think it was cool, and Star Wars had been something I have loved my whole life. I had even told my parents one time that I would pick Star Wars over any girl in the world. I feel that this was my subconscious trying to take me back to when I would use my creativity all the time because it had been the first time I was able to create something as freely as I did with Legos.

When thinking of what to make my radio transmitter play. I wanted it to play something symbolic and close to me, but then I remembered that I wanted to let the world guide me. So I let the world guide me. My friend and I were playing music and he put on his favorite genre, which was pokemon music. He then asked me what I listened to when I was little and I told him Star Wars music. Which then got me back into listening to Star Wars music, my favorite genre before I came to UCSD and the music I decided to use for my radio station. The idea to use Star Wars music had been in front of me the whole time. This felt like my subconscious telling me to return to who I truly am and to stop getting lost in what others think. Star Wars music and Legos were the biggest part of my life, before I came to UCSD and I dropped them like a bad habit just to conform. I should have been myself the whole time and not cared what others thought.

I then figured out that I could get an MP3 of a song, turn it into a midi file, and put it in software that translates it into Arduino tones. I then put those tone values in an array and let it run on the arduino. I did this process for many different Star Wars songs, I ended up at the Main Theme because it sounded the most recognizable. I made the location a plug by Mandeville because it is right outside my bosses office and it was the only spot I could get on short notice. The spot was nice, it was right by a huge tree I used to sit by and relax when I felt alone.

I believe my subconscious had made this whole project based off of Lego Star Wars to tell me to return to who I truly am and to stop letting the world control me. I have always loved Legos and Star Wars and I had to stop to fit in when I came to UCSD. I need to be myself and that’s what I have done since realizing it. In being myself I have felt so much happier and met so many people who are just like me.

I believe that the world is not full of coincidences, everything in this world happens for a reason. We all may not know the reason right now, we may never find the reason, but it all happens for a specific reason.

It is only when we follow where the world wants to take us that we will be where we want to be.