Archive for the ‘Thesis’ Category
Thesis prototypes video
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
I made a short documentation about my prototypes for my thesis. Enjoy!
Performance Based Musicmaking prototypes from Wout Standaert on Vimeo.
Tags: Ableton Live, gestures, java, OSCulator, Pure Data, Research, Waveshaping, wiigee, wiimote
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Thesis complete – Success!
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
I’m glad to announce that I’ve successfully completed my thesis and will have a masters degree soon.
Expect source code of my projects and additional files available for download soon.
Tags: Research
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Almost there…
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
This summer I worked on my thesisdocument and thesisprototype while the presentation date is the 3rd of September ‘09.
So we’re almost there! In the meanwhile, you can download the final version of my thesis here (in Dutch).
Tags: Research
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Wiigee – cont’d
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Hooked up four wiimotes to a java application today and they all have their own set of gestures and actions. Now I just have to set the “learn gesture” and “detect gesture” buttons to only one of the four wiimotes, and create a usable GUI for it.
Tags: java, wiigee, wiimote
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Wiigee + OSC + Ableton Live (+ Pure Data)
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
I edited the Wiigee demo application to send out OSC messages. These messages get formatted by Pure Data to MIDI messages for Ableton Live. For now it just says the gestures out loud, but ultimately, a set running in ableton live can be completely controlled by these gestures. Triggering notes or sequences that are or are not quantized to the beat.
Anyway, here’s a video where I show these 5 quick test gestures; “Circle”, “Square”, “Z”, “Triangle” and “Tennis”. A musician will be able to choose his own gestures and his own events connected to those gestures so he can control his music without having to hide behind his computer.
Wiimote Gesture recognition with WiiGee from Wout Standaert on Vimeo.
The next step is using 4 wiimotes for gesture recognition. Then the movements made will hopefully have a higher rate of recognition. Now it has a 90% success rate or so.
Tags: Ableton Live, java, Pure Data, wiigee, wiimote
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Wiimote Gesture Recognition – wiigee
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I’ve mostly been writing these last few days but now I wanted to work on my gesturing prototype again so I did. I compiled the demo-application that comes with WiiGee, and it works quite well.
Training of the gestures works smoothly, and recognition is fast, but it’s sometimes a bit off when you’ve overtrained a gesture or when it was not precisely trained. Then it will recognize every movement as that particular gesture. But overall it works very fast and I’m curious to how it will perform with multiple wiimotes.
Tags: java, wiigee, wiimote
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Waveshaping/wavetable prototype
Monday, April 27th, 2009
I worked out the prototype in Pure Data, which happened to be much easier…
It sounds a bit like a lawnmower now, so I’m still in the process of tweaking the sound a bit.
Tags: OSCulator, Pure Data, Waveshaping, wiimote
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Processing sound libs problems #2
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
I sent an email to Damien from the minim library with a recording of the glitch, and here’s what he said:
“Ugh, that is a weird glitch. I’d agree that it’s not buffer underrun. It
probably has something to do with the particular version of Java you are
using on your particular macbook. My understanding is that Apple has not
been very good about keeping the JVM for macs in good shape.”
Also, I got some proper sound out of it after I started up Ableton Live to record the glitch. But as mysteriously as it got fixed, it got broken again. Maybe I should switch to a windows system for this prototype. Or Pure Data, I haven’t decided yet.
Tags: Processing
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Processing sound lib problems
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
The Minim as well as the Ess library, how great they might be, both produce really strange glitchy sounds that aren’t part of the waveforms. Currently thinking of switching to Pure Data for the synthesizer.
In other news, I’ve checked out gesture recognition with wiimotes. There’s a java library that focuses on this, WiiGee, but it doesn’t support multiple wiimotes — edit: it does. So I’m checking out Hidden markov models and their use in gesture recognition. Since this is computer science stuff it’s a bit over my head…
I’ll keep you posted! The waveshaping synth prototype should be finished soon.
Tags: Processing, Waveshaping, wiimote
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Processing sound libs
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
I’m trying to get the waveforms I draw in processing into some kind of oscillator using the minim library. Somehow it should work.
I also added some toggles to my wiimote analysing app for easily comparing waveforms. (click for a full scale version)
I’m also preparing for the trip to Berlin this week with school from monday to thursday. Weela!
Tags: OSCulator, Processing, Waveshaping, wiimote
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