Drancing accelerometer air instrument with Wiimotes:AM+Drums

Published on: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:25:03 -0700

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 latest mini movie with improved video and audio demonstrates combined Amplitude Modulation (AM), and triggered Drum samples ("Drumming by Dancing", "air drums") 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"). Find out more about Drancing and DranceWare synthesis software and patches at: http://www.webel.com.au/project/drancing

Author: webelcomau
Keywords: synthesis accelerometer Wii wiimote gesture hci puredata
Added: July 28, 2008