Experiments in balloon motion and sound using an MS Kinect depth sensing camera.

Created for the Carnegie Mellon 1st & 2nd year MFA Graduate show entitled “Fresh Baked Goods” at Bakery Square, April 2011.

Description

A machine stands in a room surrounded by balloons. Circulating fans blow the balloons over the machine which creates sound based on their movements.

Mode 1: Tones

Balloon height and x/y position control the pitch and panning of a treble and bass voice. The tones can be quantized into a certain key or a glisssando can be employed for a theremin-style effect.

Mode 2: 99 Luftballons

The playback speed of Nena’s 99 Luftballons is controlled by balloon height. The balloons must be kept in the air for the song to play. Feed the machine.

Built using Open Frameworks, ofxKinect, and OpenCV for balloon tracking and Pure Data for sound generation/playback.

Music: 99 Luftballons by Nena

EDIT: On Create Digital Music

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I took part in the openFrameworks Lab at the Ars Electronica Festival 08:

Zachary Lieberman and Theo Watson, originators of openFrameworks, an open source, C++ toolkit for artists and creative technologists, are transforming the 1st floor of the Brucknerhaus into an experimental laboratory: OF lab. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang out and experiment, make art, create guerrilla exhibitions around the festival and document their progress and discoveries. The “OF lab” will focus on creating new works that come directly out of suggestions from the festival audience members, and over the course of the event, create a feedback loop between suggestions, experimentation, making projects, exhibiting the results and most importantly, exposing the process.

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Interactivos? @ eyebeam: a 2 week workshop at Eyebeam in NYC June 26 – July 12 08

The project was part of the Double Take Exhibition at Eyebeam from Jul 12 – Aug 8 08

Check out the official project wiki

UPDATE Sept 08: soundMetal will be in Nick Collin’s Hand Made Electronic Music and the video on the accompanying dvd!

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In the future, a grove of audio plants communicate through light and emit both light and sound.

A project for the “Future” exhibition at the IT-ceum, The Swedish Computer Museum, in Linköping, Sweden.

December 9th 2006 to March 2007

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Luminescent, skeletal animals glow to sound. A rare species discovered deep in the Pacific, deep within a petri dish, or perhaps deepdeepdeep in outer space.

A project for the “Future” exhibition at the IT-ceum, The Swedish Computer Museum, in Linköping, Sweden.

December 9th 2006 to March 2007

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A project proposal for a net watching vomiting computer.

September 2006

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“recharge”

I consume energy at my recharge station.

(an homage to Paik’s TV Buddha for today’s cult of technology)

installation/performance, Art and Technology Spring Exhibition 2006

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Throw the ball into our tilt-maze to generate a video!

F2005 Term Project

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