Drancing accelerometer music: PureData/GEM & WiiRemote

Drancing is Dr Darren Kelly's real-time gestural synthesis accelerometer music system (under development since 1996). A rapid prototype of "DranceWare" in the PureData/GEM audio/video synthesis environment has been developed for the Nintendo Wii as wireless triaxial accelerometer via Bluetooth.

This movie demonstrates combined Variable Fequency Oscillator (VFO), Amplitude Modulation (AM), and triggered Drum sample ("Drumming by Dancing") modes along with Drancel RGB monitor visuals projected onto the "Drancer" performer.
For this demonstration two hand-held WiiMotes on a MacBook Pro were used (the original Drancing sensor suit and Java DranceWare used 5 triaxial accelerometers in a "body star" pattern").

Sorry for the occasional rough audio clipping and iSight webcam; am now working on improved (limited/compressed) audio and higher quality video.

Find out more about Drancing and DranceWare synthesis software and patches at:
http://www.webel.com.au/project/drancing

Category:

Music

Tags:

• drancing
• accelerometer
• music
• gesture
• synthesis
• wiimote
• wii
• remote
• bluetooth
• non-tactile
• human
• computer
• interaction
• HCI

[naymelessmoonlight]

"all rights reserved"  -??? I thought we were all in this together - someone hasn't been floss.ing

[webelcomau]

Please advise (and explain "floss.ing"). I am not familiar with the copyright conditions for YouTube, I just uploaded what I had as it was. Glad for reference to convention.

[naymelessmoonlight]

FLOSS is an acronym for Free/Libre Open Source Software, the radical notion that ideas are free for use by anyone. It involves the exchange of programs such as this one, relating to PureData, Gem and many, many others - without involving big corporations, as artists and programmers we can work together loosely, cooperatively and respectfully to distribute technology, information, insiration and knowledge. It's known as the flossproject.

[wiki2k5]

amazing

[eljuli1003]

awesome.