Comments on: Gestural Music Sequencer: Video, Processing, and Ableton Live

By: John Keston

John Keston — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:52:50 +0000

Thanks for the entry, Peter. I would like to note that Grant Muller (grantmuller.com) helped significantly by adding functionality to the RWMidi library including higher PPQ resolution and external sync capabilities.

By: altitude sickness

altitude sickness — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:59:57 +0000

I am reminded of a piece we performed in this year titled Blinky, by Rebecca Fiebrink. She has written a java-based machine learning algorithm to extract features from all kinds of input – though this piece involves waving flashlights at the built-in camera on our macbooks. The wekinator is an incredible tool, as it allows realtime assignment of various controls to different parameters via OSC.

Wekinator: http://wekinator.cs.princeton.edu/

By: runagate

runagate — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:22:38 +0000

This is really cool :)

And, amazingly, local to me. Thanks for posting this.

It makes me feel a lot less weird for sitting at home and trying to figure out how to sequence the mapping of what controls actually control along a timeline – if I were waving my hand in the air and then held it still and what happens at a certain gestural position changed audibly through time I’d have a lot less trouble getting someone a little more analytical to tweak it into a sweet spot.

Is there anything harder to put into words than nonlinear change-over-time which is non-visualizable?

This video helped me in more than one way!