Deadmau5 LED head @ Coachella 2010

March 28, 2011  |  Gear & Hardware, Los Angeles (SoCal), Videos  |  Comments Off  |  Share  | 

After pointing out The Sonic Cubes video, a friend showed me the Deadmau5 LED version from last spring. Nice!

Another view:

(Thanks Geoff!)

Daphne Oram’s audiovisual music synthesizer, 1957

March 28, 2011  |  Gear & Hardware, UK, Videos  |  Comments Off  |  Share  | 

A brief glimpse of Daphne Oram’s pioneering and unique Oramics synthesizer, designed in 1957 after she left the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop to pursue the project. This short film features Dr Mick Grierson, Director of The Daphne Oram Collection, acquiring the synthesizer from a collector in 2009. The machine is now in the hands of The Science Museum in London and is currently being restored. It hasn’t been performed with since the 1970s.

(via Boingboing)

Kinect + visualSynth by VJ Fader (LA)

March 24, 2011  |  Gear & Hardware, Los Angeles (SoCal), Videos  |  Comments Off  |  Share  | 

Reality touchscreen @ University of Groningen (Netherlands)

February 24, 2011  |  Gear & Hardware, Installations, Netherlands, Videos  |  Comments Off  |  Share  | 

We used six Optitrack v120 slim camera’s which have a good sensitivity for infrared light. We used 16 cheap infrared emitters (the kind used for security systems) with a total of 1000 LED’s. The touch detection software runs on three old computers each with two camera’s connected. One extra computer combines the output from the detection computers and send event data to our main visualization system. This way we have (even using the old computers) enough processing power to be able to run the detection software at 60Hz and with a latency between 30 ms and 50 ms. It can detect without any problem 100 different touches at any time.

(via slashgear)

Bionic DJ, a hack for Music Hackday NYC 2011 by Matt Gattis

February 17, 2011  |  Gear & Hardware, Software, Videos  |  Comments Off  |  Share  | 

Matt Gattis hacked the Kinect to use it as a DJ, via Kinect, libfreeconnect, and the OSC MIDI protocol.

(via CDM)

VJacket – a wearable instrument for live video performance

February 17, 2011  |  Gear & Hardware, Videos  |  Comments Off  |  Share  | 

The VJacket is a wearable controller for live video performance. Built into the jacket are bend, touch and hit sensors which let you control video effects and transitions, trigger clips, and scratch frames all from the comfort of your own jacket.

Link to project

thanks, Tyler =)