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Tool to make music from Leap Motion gestures is free, VR could be next
This is about as affordable and easy as gestural interaction with music can get. The powerful Geco music controller app pairs with the $80 Leap Motion hand tracking hardware – and now the app is free. But it could be just the beginning. For its part, the Leap Motion is now sort of yesterday’s news. […]
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The Arcane Arts of Experimental Instrument Design: 3DMIN [Videos, Gallery]
From the dawn of civilization, musicians could always be counted on as the ones inventing the truly weird technologies to make noise. Here – bang on this. Blow into this. It’ll make some sound; it’ll be noisy; it’ll get everyone’s attention. And so, the art of such designs continues. New instrument design explorations have gone […]
How Gestures and Ableton Live Can Make Anyone a Conductor of Mendelssohn [Behind the Scenes]
Digital music can go way beyond just playback. But if performers and DJs can remix and remake today’s music, why should music from past centuries be static? An interactive team collaborating on the newly reopened Museum im Mendelssohn-Haus wanted to bring those same powers to average listeners. Now, of course, there’s no substitute for a […]
DUO is a DIY 3D Sensor – Like Leap, But Open Source, From Gesture and Vision Veterans
Peter Kirn - April 22, 2013
Archive Motion Music tech
Bio-interfacing Meets Music: Journal, Berlin Opening, and Get Started with Open Hardware Right Now
Peter Kirn - July 11, 2012
Music Music tech
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