The EyeHarp: An Eye Tracking Based Musical Instrument

[anatoli72cristina]

Η εφεύρεση συμμετέχει στον διαγωνισμό του συνεδρίου TedXAthens και εάν επιλεγεί, θα στηριχτεί η περαιτέρω ανάπτυξή της.

[anatoli72cristina]

Η εφεύρεση, που λέγεται EyeHarp, είναι ένα ηλεκτρονικό μουσικό όργανο το οποίο μπορεί να παίξει κανείς επιλέγοντας νότες, ένταση ήχου κ.λπ. με το βλέμμα ή με κινήσεις του κεφαλιού



[anatoli72cristina]

Η εφεύρεση αυτή αναπτύχθηκε από έναν έλληνα επιστήμονα, απόφοιτο του τμήματος Πληροφορικής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. Ο εφευρέτης, Ζαχαρίας Βαμβακούσης, ανέπτυξε το μουσικό αυτό όργανο που μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί από άτομα με σοβαρές κινητικές δυσκολίες, στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής του εργασίας.

[RothMobot]

Excellent work.



[thanos18]

τί άλλο να πει κανείς παρα μόνο μπράβο? 1000 μπράβο

[mandotron]

excellent work by the way. your thesis was a good read too

[mandotron]

is it possible to use the eye harp as a controller for midi devices? say if i wanted to use a piano sound instead of the sounds already there?

[TheEyeHarp]

@mandotron

Not yet, but I just started looking into it a few hours before I read your post mandotron. This is a coincidence! For my master thesis I wanted to come up with sth relatively stable as soon as possible. Now I guess there is more time to improve many things, including using it as a midi controlled. So stay tuned :)

[TheEyeHarp]

@mandotron

Did it! In combination with the LoopBe internal midi port freeware right now I control any vst virtual instrument with my eyes. The following days I will upload the executable and source code of this. So stay tuned :)

[antirisi]

Man, my project is open source and it is in open frameworks. For open frameworks you can study the book programming interactivity. Since the project is open source, a part of your project could be adding new features to it or improving it. What eye tracker are you going to use? Visit the web page of ITU Gaze Tracker to biuld your won eye tracker!

[FalltoAbism]

Espetacular work men! greetings from portugal, i am a student of multimidia and this year i have a final project , that is very similar to that, and my final goal is very similar to your´s, can you give me some toturials or some tip's, i'm really appreciadet, thanks:)

[agamemnonc]

respect ρε φίλε!

πολύ πολύ πολύ ωραίο.

καλή συνέχεια

[qwmnkj]

Μπράβο ρε αγορίνα πολύ καλό! Αν υπάρχει κάπου public η πτυχιακή δώσε ένα link με pm, με ενδιαφέρει κυρίως το image analysis κομμάτι. DIT rulez.

[antirisi]

Des sto tedxathens challenge. Ekei exw kai to link

[LostButSeeking]

Good job but to be honest i found the sound of theremin a bit annoying!

Personal taste , i guess..

Anyway , I hope this makes a hit and help people with dissabilities express their music. :)

[TheEyeHarp]

@LostButSeeking

Many people say that. You can choose more sounds in the interface. Download the software and play with it with your mouse. More sounds will be included in the future and maybe it could also work as a midi controller, where the user will be able to use his own sound bank.

[DaBooMGR]

This looks awesome. ROCK ON!

[WillowTree369]

This is a cute idea in terms of what technology can do - and truly wonderful if it opens up music-making possibilities to people who are paralysed, for example - but other than that it's surely a pretty pointless exercise musically. We're all able to create cheesy-sounding elecro music using the simple programmable keyboards that are around everywhere. What I'm looking forward to is some kind of brain scanner what will convert the music I'm creating in my head into something anyone can hear!

[stroulou]

its the best thing i have ever seen

[TheEyeHarp]

@stroulou Ποιος/ποια είσαι; Για να μιλάς με τόσο καλά λόγια, φίλος/φίλη θα είσαι!!!

[azkuene]

great work and music! congratulations

[std01077]

This seriously rocks!!!

[m4rlo]

that is a great thing,, plus love the song..

there's some theremin sounding right ?

[TheEyeHarp]

@m4rlo

Yes, that was my intention to make it sound like a theremin. You can choose from other preset sounds as well, or in the advanced mode you can create your own sound by adjusting various variables (attack time, release time, spectral envelope, glissanto, vibrato frequency & width)