eyeSequencer (Work in Progress)

Every now and then you see some particullary beautiful eyes some of them inspired me to use images of eyes to create musical material. I wrote a little framework/application in Processing to help me analyse the image. "Scanners"€ circulate in the eye and analyse RGB and brightness values. These values are used to create OSC Messages, which then are send to SuperCollider. There I could generate sound, but for this example i decided to send MIDI control messages and notes to Ableton Live. Look/hear for yourself: Little reminder. This is a work in progress and I see much room for improvements. I only spend about one hour for the SuperCollider/Ableton Live part, so this could sound a lot nicer ;) Stay tuned for more!

http://blog.cappel-nord.de/2008/11/eyesequencer-work-in-progress-demonstration/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• supercollider
• processing.org
• ableton
• live
• experimental
• alphakanal
• automat
• generative
• music

[Sparragus]

Wow, this is beautiful!! Great work! I'd love to see the source code. Will you make it available?

[cappelnord]

thanks, maybe when it is finished.

[opigir]

Your video is really amazing, I would love to see how far you could push this concept perhaps live performace piece using video of a persons eye. Or multiple images being processed at once to create rich layered sounds. Good Luck

[cappelnord]

thank you :) i plan to do it in a live performance, but i yet have to figure out ways to ineract with it. will be posting an update if i make progress.

[xXYCOx]

nice work mate, can't wait to see where you take this. So is it just picking out random co-ordinates on the eye to get the notes?

[cappelnord]

not quite random. it is a little bit hard to see, but there are some red squares circulating in the eye. In these examples they look for big jumps in brightness/color underneath them and "fire" when they think they should to.

[marksteadman1]

Inspiring work! :)

[grainfaceSucks]

is that your eye?

[WARDISWARD]

centre of an unknown yet to be discovered universe...

That's what the iris looks like

NICE

[stevennn0111]

nice eye

[nativeops]

what would be cool is cameras that can calibrate on your eyes and trigger sounds by looking at images/locations on the screen.

that will be the near future

[geofferd]

impressive to say the least!! A beautiful piece of art