Wiigee + OSC + Ableton Live (+ Pure Data)

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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