Push, gently

25115 Bodily Interaction – final project

idea

•  Turn a tangible object into a musical instrument

•  Use the deformation of the material as the principal interaction paradigm

realization

•  Stretchy fabric to be mounted on poles •  Calibrate Kinect so that depth is zero when the

surface is flat •  Scan horizontally the surface depth •  Create a sound buffer whose samples are the

height map calculated above

Technical implementation

•  simpleOpenNI in processing

Technical implementation

•  Transformation of the height map into a buffer

•  Filtering and waveform clean-up

• Open Sound Control Max/Msp

features •  Multi - ”user” •  Continuous timbre manipulation simplified additive

synthesis •  It does not rely on arbitrary mapping

Open points

•  Vertical scanning unused • Which material?