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Re: [microsound] MIDI exoskeleton



A decade ago Yamaha had the Miburi

http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/SpectrumWeb/captions/Miburi.html

I think it ran around $4000 as I recall and I've seen some not laughable performances from artist's who've practiced.

Well my take is first off it doesn't show any real technological progress a decade later. I can see how it might be really convenient for limited mocap rather than music. I don't know how long it takes to set up though I assume it's fast, if so it might have potential there, though you'd be limited to arms,. I'd think for mocap most users are generally are after a whole body.

Thinking about performance, obviously anything in the way of a person performing trumps someone sitting still with a laptop.

I think the relationship between the gesture and the sound being produced is key. Some overly dramatic gesture with a simplistic or un- nuanced sound winds up unintentionally funny or looks like a gimmick. Something else that maybe exceeds your expectations or shows potential will impress. There's a threshold between cool and silly. Then again in many respects it has to do with points of reference that you've accepted

As to the future, and as someone who has some background in 3D graphics, I think the mocap future is one of using several differently positioned cameras extracting 3D data from the differences in the images. Though that probably highlights a big difference in goal, obviously in motion capture the result is a capture, not a realtime musical performance. Some applications need realtime motion capture but most commercial uses just need the capture, not the realtime stream. And then as to the musical applications, as I've mentioned Yamaha had a testing the waters product a decade ago that I don't really see this greatly improving on.


nicholas d. kent http://technopop.info/ndkent/

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