
VPlay: An Interactive Surface for VJing
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1. VPlay: An Interactive Surface for VJing
10 months ago
VPlay is an interactive multi-touch surface designed to open up the practice of VJing, encouraging new creative dialogues to be formed between VJs and members of the audience.
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effects react
on the played music?
& i thought:
dj & vj = working
crowd = enjoying
for a collaboration between
crowd and vj must exist a
better way than a multitouch.
the obvious comparison is reactable, which imho suits the paradigm better with synthesis and visualising the waveform in the patch cords.
and i'm glad you haven't just pipped me to the post of what i'm working on! early days for the actual code, but there is a subversion commit =]
really looking forward to seeing this next week at cafe1001. morishuz.com/electrovision/ev5/ev5.html
I met the reacTable at Ars Electronica 2008 and found it to be frustratingly non-intuitive; evidently a well-advanced system that has built-in a lot of controls and you need to be aware of what things do in order to use it. The on-stage performance, with several performers, just showed that it is capable of making a lot of noise with cool graphics, but the graphics were better than the noise, which sometimes freaked out and left the audience covering their ears while the performers tried to get it to stop squealing. I rate that as an utter failure in terms of audio. A discreet off-screen reset button (or even mute!) would have been a good idea.
Back to VPlay... is it a descendant of some existing node-based video mixer, or is it all new?
VPlay - Microsoft Research
research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/vplay/