“Communion”, a generative art piece

“Communion”, a generative piece created by Matt Pyke (Universal Everything) and Field.io – Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn. Music was written by Simon Pyke and plays an integral part in the piece. The installation is in a rectangular room with 6 separate projection on the walls creating almost a 360º environment. The final piece includes an array or evolving creatures going through stages of development – evolution from simple to complex with human like properties with generative behaviours, deeply immersive and “a celebration of an audio visual synesthetic experience “ – Marcus. Matt describes the process as “instilling living characteristics to the dancing forms, from simple cellular structures through to multi-limbed creatures. Although abstract and unfamiliar, the beings feel alive and part of a community and they express the wonder of nature, the creation of something from nothing, a unique ecosystem “ . Via Creative Applications Network

Interactive Puppet Prototype with Kinect

Concept and Production by Design I/O; Emily Gobeille - Theo Watson
"The system is doing skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird" via: Theo Watson on vimeo

Virtual Choir

The Virtual Choir is a global project by Eric Whitacre, a modern composer who pushes the boundaries of musical performance by creating a user-generated online choir. Project collected 2052 self-made recordings of people performing the same song and then recombined these efforts into one collaborative work of art freely available on YouTube.
More info via: singularityhub.com

Live Looping with Ableton and Xbox Kinect

Chris Vik's amazing live performance at Microsoft's REMIX11 conference is build on his Kinect/Ableton/Max setup:
• Ableton Live
• NI Massive
• Max/MSP (making useful MIDI data out of the hand coordinates from OSCeleton)
• Behringer FCB1010 (controlling Ableton, ie. looping, switching the Kinect’s instrument etc)

The Kinect was setup using OpenNI, PrimeSense NITE and OSCeleton.
Enjoy the video!

Kinect Beta SDK available

A beta version of the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available.
See Demos from SDK Beta Launch CodeCamp.

'ISAM' live show

Amon Tobin's live audio/visual fantastic visual journey will be presented in selected cities around the world. Designed in conjunction with Blasthaus, VSquared Labs, Vita Motus Design, Leviathan and others.
“It’s by far the most exciting development in my personal quest for some control over nature,” Tobin explains. “Anything from a grain of found sound to my own voice can be transformed into something new.”
Via www.mutek.org