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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Wout Says:
Good comment! I originally wanted to make it as unintrusive as possible, so the musician would just be able to do his moves and nothing else. My girlfriend had made me some straps to mount the wiimotes to my limbs without having to hold them, but eventually, I still had to press a button in the gesture recognition process, so I had to hold the wiimotes anyway.
But I hear from the guy that made the Java gesture-recognition library, Benjamin Poppinga, that he’s working on continuous gesture recognition, regocnizing multiple gestures in a larger, continuous stream of data. Which would allow me to use the straps again.
Currently I have a lot of plans for the gesture recognition prototype, extra functions and limbs and stuff. But making it wearable would be very cool, maybe I can check out indeed how much of the parts of the wiimote I can strip to integrate it into some clothing. I honestly didn’t think about stripping the wiimote to its bare parts.
I’m also picturing accelerometers and some use of the lilypad arduino. I’ll keep it in mind!
TS Says:
Amazing stuff. This could be easily applied to other devices with accelerometers and create a totally new art genre.
Well done!
December 7th, 2009 at 09:05
Wow, strikingly good presentation.. and also very interesting topic
Is the idea to incorporate the parts of the wiimote into something wearable?