Project Number
- 225
Title
- Stretchable Music with Laser Range Finder
Description
- Interactive graphical and gesture interface for music creation.
Contact
- Pete Rice, Joshua Strickon
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- E15-495, 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- E15-495, 20 Ames Street
- strickon@media.mit.edu
WWW
- http://brainop.media.mit.edu/~strickon/siggraph.html
Year
- 1998
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Stretchable Music with Laser Range Finder combines an innovative, graphical, interactive music system with a state-of-the-art laser tracking device."
- Using an abstract graphical representation of music that is projected onto a large vertical display, users manipulate the animated objects which correspond to particular parts of the music. Using natural, unencumbered movements to stretch and move objects, new synthesis occurs.
- "The project uses a scanning laser rangefinder to track multiple hands in a plane just forward of the projection surface. Using quadrature-phase detection, this inexpensive device can locate up to six independent points in a plane with centimeter accuracy at up to 30 Hertz."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- scanning laser range finder
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Secondary
- 302 - spatial sound
Remarks
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