Posted in interactive dance floor on February 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A little movie to show you another animation that responds to the music as well as following something…
This is the visualisation I was talking about in the post ‘Thoughts on two sources’. I’ve had a better look at the program now and it seems that the warping doesn’t actually attract the [...]
Posted in lecture/seminar notes on February 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Bowers from Goldsmiths came to give us what was more or less a presentation of his previous work on Thursday, some really interesting stuff, quite relevant to what a lot of us are thinking about at the moment.
He kicked off by talking about the interactive virtual reality work he was involved with in the [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on February 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My tango friend Adam had a bright idea and e-mailed me this…
Hi!
How did it go with gonzalo and solange?
I was just working on something totally unrelated, and I had an idea…
You know that video you showed me with people holding sensors, and the image changed whenever they turned the sensor upside down or something?
Well, in [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had thought I would have to adjust the programme to receive two inputs if I wanted the dancers to be tracked individually, but when we were experimenting in the space, it would jump between the two sources of shadow if the dancers were apart, creating the effect I wanted anyway (two sets of [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Liam introduced me to a max patch yesterday that generates visualisations from music, then I discovered that the centre of the generated animation can be moved, this is ideal! It means it should plug straight in to my patch with minimal fiddling, to follow the coordinates of the dancers. I will have a go… not [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on February 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I handed in my statement of intent for this project… collaborative_statement1.doc
He seemed happy enough. Suggested thinking about how sound was involved, that perhaps the patterns generated by the programme should effect the playback of the music to make it all circular (music affects the choreography, choreography affects the pattern, pattern affects the music). I can [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Frankie (who helped me with the filming at the arts centre) commented that he was reminded of Rilke’s elegy referencing Picasso’s Les Saltimbanques… so I looked it up. This is the fifth elegy, the last six lines are relevant…
But who are they, tell me, these Travellers, even more
transient than we are ourselves, urgently, from their [...]
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