Some of you might have seen the Animoitu liike -workshop I did in collaboration with Päivi Hintsanen and Live Herring in Jyväskylä public library (September 2009) http://www.liveherring.org/animoitu_liike/
This week I'm going to do part 2 of the workshop in Jyväskylä in collaboration with Loiskis (http://www.loiskis.fi/). The Kinect sensor has greatly improved the project as I no longer need to use IR markers.
Here is a small demo. Running with a custom build of OSCeleton, Quartz Composer and Animata.
For demonstration purposes, I'm changing the character and the background by clapping my hands.
The drawings were made by students from the Keski-Palokka elementary school.
Testing out OSCeleton with Quartz Composer.
What is OSCeleton?
"As the title says, it's just a small program takes Kinect skeleton data from the OpenNI framework and spits out the coordinates of the skeleton's joints via OSC messages. These can can then be used on your language / framework of choice."
https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton
I had to make a small Max/MSP patch to convert the OSC messages to a format that QC understands. You can download it here:
http://mansteri.com/2011/01/osceleton-with-quartz-composer/
*NOTE: IF SOMEONE HAS ANY BETTER QUALITY VIDEO OF THE PERFORMANCE, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT.*
An interactive performance where you had the unique possibility to meet It – a strange being from an unknown world.
The visitors were encouraged to try to communicate with It. Its environment would reflect the emotions It was going through by changing color and by altering the soundscape.
It was also connected to the internet and a monitor would display videos from YouTube based on Its emotions.
Created during the RAFLOSTi workshop 17–21 May 2010 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
IT
Dagrún Adalsteinsdottir
FRENCH HORN
Erla Axelsdóttir
CELLO
Þórður Hermannsson
RINGMASTER
Linda Söderholm
PROJECTIONS,
INTERACTION DESIGN &
PROGRAMMING
Matti Niinimäki
Linda Söderholm
SOUND DESIGN
Þórður Hermannsson
Erla Axelsdóttir
DRAWINGS & COSTUMES
Dagrún Adalsteinsdottir
My Made in Iron project presented at Demo Day in Media Lab Helsinki.
Made in Iron is a tangible instrument/controller for musical performances.
Features:
- IR line detector that senses the grayscale values of the surface
- Accelerometer
- MIDI out (controlling Ableton Live on the video)
- Pure Data & Max/MSP based instruments
- 6 different modes
- Wireless (range: ~25 meters)
- Tactile feedback from a vibration motor
- RGB LED
To do:
- Interactive visuals generated by the Iron
Video shot by Liisa Tervinen.
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