Mogees - Mosaicing Gestural Surface

Mogees is an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime audio mosaicing.

When the performer touches the surface, Mogees analyses the incoming audio signal and continuously looks for its closest segment within the sound database. These segments are played one after the other over time: this technique is called concatenative synthesis. For instance, loaded a series of voice samples, a graze in the surface could corresponds to a whispering while a scratch would trigger more shouted sounds.

The wooden surface can be "played" with any tool such as hands and Mogees will always try to find a correspondent sound to it. It can also be applied to other sound sources such as voice or acoustic/electric instruments.

Mooges has been developed in collaboration with Norbert Schnell and takes full advantage of the MuBu environment for MaxMSP. It is currently used in the Airplay project by the IRCAM composer Lorenzo Pagliei.

Mogees has been exposed at the Beam festival at Brunel University in London on the 24/25/26 of June 2011.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mosaicing
• gesture follower
• sensors
• music
• performance
• machine learning
• pattern recognition

[ZbyszekSiekiera]

Great! Please tell me, where i can get one?

[HeartaQ]

@lightotw Yup, it isn't an instrument, no one said so. It's a gestural surface, which could be used like a touch screen.

[lightotw]

@HeartaQ If the sounds have no coorespondance to the qualities of the vibration, then this is just as much an instrument as myself dancing to music in a dance club. Or for another example, a person could pass by the theft detectors at Walmart in time to music with the appropriate RFID tags. Timing alone doesn't make it a musical instrument, or else The Partridge Family really are rock stars.

[HeartaQ]

@lightotw "When the performer touches the surface, Mogees analyses the incoming audio signal and continuously looks for its closest segment within the sound database." Dude, the mic is just receiving the sound, but the sounds we are hearing are from a sound database. All the sounds are just as loud as the samples have been mixed to be.

[JIIMz69]

sounds like shit .but pretty intriguing.

lol

[lightotw]

At 1:05 the microphone is touched. This should make a large sound - the loudest in the event, and it does not. This is fake. Do something more useful with your time.

[amy963852]

i'm wondering what would it sound like if it is attached on human's skin or water surface?

[8styx8]

there is no product. instead it's software code/program. it will be released when he is ready



[bgepp]

can you program drum beats and mixin'/scratchin sounds? this demo is cool but it's hard to listen to.

[69TmTulio]

where a buy one?

[azazella3531]

incredible