Multi-touch

Oct 01 15:44

Controlling Roots with the iPhone

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Well I finally caved in and bought an iPhone - and my favorite feature (and main reason for buying it) is of course the multi-touch capabilities. So currently OSCemote is my favourite app. Apart from having a few sliders and knobs which transmit OSC (similar to TouchOSC), it also has a multitouch pad which sends out TUIO messages, so any app which responds to TUIO (E.g. anything written with reactivision api) will respond. So I had to try out my visualisation for the Roots Project! Up and running in 5 minutes! Awesome! (I had to rotate the coordinates in my processing code though to have the long end of the iphone screen map to the long end of my desktop screen, slightly annoying that this isn't an option in the app... hopefully soon :P).

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Sep 11 16:49

Roots @ Minitek Festival 2008

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"Roots" is an interactive musical/visual installation for the Brick Table tangible and multi-touch interface, where multiple people can collaborate in making music in a dynamic & visually responsive environment. It is a collaborative effort between myself and the Brick Table creators Jordan Hochenbaum & Owen Vallis. It will premiere at the Minitek Music + Innovation Festival September 12-14, 2008 in New York.


The essence of the interaction, is that you control parameters of a chaotic environment - which affect the behaviour of its inhabitants - which create and control music.

To breakdown very briefly without going into much detail:

  • There are vinelike structures branching and wandering around on the table. They live and move in an environment governed by chaos.
  • Audio is triggered and controlled entirely by how and where the branches move.
  • You - the user - control various parameters of the chaotic environment. Parameters which range from introducing varying amounts of order, to simply changing certain properties to let the chaos evolve in different directions.

There are varying levels of interaction, ranging from traditional one-to-one correlations - 'this movement I make creates that sound', but also to more complex relationships along the lines of 'this movement I make affects the environment in this way which sends the music into that direction where it evolves with a life of its own'. The visuals are purely generative, as is the audio, and as user you can play with the parameters of that system and watch and listen to the results...

 

Demo of drawing with roots:

 

Demo of using fiducials to create magnetic force fields:

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Aug 21 02:26

Magnetic force fields in Processing, controlled by Multitouch & Quartz Composer

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This is a demo of creating and visualizing magnetic (kind of) fields in Processing and controlling with a tangible multitouch table and Quartz Composer. It gets more interesting after the 1 minute mark :P


I recommend watching the video in HD at http://www.vimeo.com/1569676

The demo came about as a digression off the Roots project I'm working on with Jordan & Owen - makers of the Bricktable (http://bricktable.wordpress.com/). You can read more about the Roots project at http://www.memo.tv/roots_creating_and_visualising_generative_music_on_a_... and http://bricktable.wordpress.com/about/what-is-roots/ .

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Aug 07 16:38

Roots - Creating and Visualising Generative Music on a Tangible & Multi-Touch Table

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Thanks to the windy ways of the web, I've found myself working with some truly talented musicians/techies/electronics experts over on the otherside of the pond in California, on a very exciting interactive, generative audio/visual project. The number of traditional instruments they have and play wasn't enough for them, so they decided to build their own, as one does when in that situation - one of which is the bricktable, a tangible and multi-touch table - and instrument.

I've worked on a number of interesting interactive audio projects, but the approach in this one is quite different and i"m very excitied to be working with the bricktable guys on it.

In one line: You control parameters of a chaotic environment - which affect the behaviour of its inhabitants - which create and control music. 

To breakdown very briefly without going into much detail:

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May 31 16:12

New Music New Media 2008 @ Aldeburgh Music

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Aldeburgh Music is an organization based in Suffolk, UK working with musicians - both professional and just starting out - to help them reach their full potential by providing them with the time and space to discover, create and explore - as well as providing inspirational scenery and a rich musical heritage.

The New Music New Media / Britten–Pears Programme offers advanced performance experience to young professional musicians in the inspiring surroundings of Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival founded by Benjamin Britten in 1948.

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