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Non-Tactile

Blue Air

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 00:57 — Jon

Blue Air is an infrared MIDI controller that measures distance. Continuous controller information is produced by movement an object or a performer’s hand vertically above the infrared eye located on the top panel of Blue Air. MIDI data produced by Blue Air are fast and tightly packed together. The typical time between blocks of MIDI datum is 5 milliseconds. The tremendous volume of data being sent is often best managed by MIDI manipulation software such as MAX by Cycling ’74.

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Blue Air

Polhemus Isotrak

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 15:39 — Jon

George Logemann uses the Polhemus Corp Isotrak — a six-dimensional spatial “joystick” that operates over a hemisphere of about five feet in diameter. George writes that the Isotrak provides “flexibility over a realstic human expression space and a significant number of dimensions available to communicate gestures”.

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Polhemus Isotrak

Silent Drum Controller

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 14:00 — Jon

The Silent Drum Controller is a transparent drum shell with an elastic head. As one presses it, the head deforms and a variety of shapes with peaks are created reflecting the shape of the hand. These shapes are captured by a video camera that sends these images to the computer, which analyzes them and outputs the tracked parameters.

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Silent Drum Controller Silent Drum Controller

ISA Harp

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 12:10 — Jon

1.2m X 1.2m aluminium frame with a grid of focused infrared beams intersecting at the right angles. Every beam or every intersection individually programmable by means of supplied software utility. Playing is accomlished by moving hands or any other part of the body within the frame of the instrument.

Communication protocol: MIDI or/and USB.

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ISA Harp

The Conductor’s Jacket

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 11:02 — Jon

A set of sensors sewn into a wearable cloth substrate that can be comfortably worn by a conductor or performer on stage.

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The Conductor’s Jacket

Bodycoder

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 01:24 — Jon

The Bodycoder interface is a flexible sensor array worn on the body of a performer that sends data generated by movement to an Max/MSP environment via radio. Movement data is mapped in a variety of ways to live processing and manipulation. The primary expression functionality of the Bodycoder System is Kinaesonic. The term Kinaesonic is derived from the compound of two words: Kinaesthetic meaning the movement principles of the body and Sonic meaning sound.

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Bodycoder Bodycoder

Sound Sculpture

Sun, 05/30/2010 - 08:57 — Jon

J.J. Hegarty and Mikael Fernström create sound sculptures that use electric field sensing (a la Theremin) to detect the proximity and activity of people in public places.

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Sound sculpture at Gairmscoil Clu Uladh in county Donegal — J.J. Hegarty and Mikael Fernström.

SOUND=SPACE

Sat, 05/29/2010 - 23:33 — Jon

SOUND=SPACE is an interactive multi-user musical environment in which visitors trigger and influence the production of sounds and souns sequences merely by moving about an empty space surveyed by an ultrasonic echolocation system. 

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Digital Ventriloquized Actor (DIVA)

Sat, 05/22/2010 - 13:41 — Jon

DIVAs are portable speech/song/facial synthesis systems that allow the user to move about and perform on stage and communicate within the community. 

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AirStick

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 22:34 — Jon

The AirStick is a controller that detects the positioning of a hand using an arrangement of eight infrared (IR) sensors.

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AirStick
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