I have posted proof-of-concept videos for three core thesis projects:
I’ve posted the latest version of the audio visualizer, with the latest tunes from an album my father and I are working on.
Built in processing with the minim library.
If you were a video editor or small production studio and you wanted to lay down some music on a film, you could use Abaltat’s Muse.
But I see this technology as much more significant than a suggested attempt to put composers on the dole.
Mark Altekruse at Abaltat suggested that as a composer, I could use this to sketch out ideas. He was right: Inside of an hour I was inserting cue points into the timeline and adjusting instrumentation according to color information.
It was a much different composing experience. Instead of writing a piece of music and then plopping it down onto the scene, I could essentially work backwards. By laying down a sketch, I could think about what mood or depth of instrumentation I could use and work out the timing, instead of worrying about the details of the music too early on.
Muse's Color Timeline
The wonderful part is that Muse allows one to export sound files and midi files for placement (exporting cues to AAF files doesn’t seem to be an option yet) and for perfectly reasonable use.Changing the scale of the current composition is quite easy. I could see using Muse on a tight deadline.
What’s most exciting is that Muse is a truly synaesthetic tool for creating dynamic sound from image.
Someone hacked a Nintendo Power Pad and made this foot controller.
Agata, I sense a collaboration.
This is a You-Tube-Like site for posting and tagging videos on the time line. This not only opens up the door to “online editing” but makes finding content within video useful. In the future I imagine seeing search results from google being a bit more useful. That is, if people tag their content usefully.
I was pointed to this site by my friends at The SEA, who are working with Viddler.
Dragon is a tool developed by the Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University. It allows for direct manipulation of objects on the screen according to their trajectory. In their study, they found that users preferred this method of interaction over a basic slider because it gave them more perceptual control. In the screen grab of their video (on the Dragon project page) you can click on the object to move it in time and trajectory.
Infinite scroll proof-of-concept from Colin Owens on Vimeo.
If the government had access to all of your information and they had the wherewithal to put it together, they might put something like this together.
I created this video as a response to a DMI exercise called “you are here.” The idea is that you could be anywhere in your (electronic) life at any point just by scrolling and pulling apart different points in time.
It’s now more than possible to create online tools that were once only possible on your desktop. I use Picnik, a tool for editing photos on Flickr and Adobe has taken the boxed version of Elements and fabricated it online.
Hobnox has introduced its audiotool, a companion music making machine to their musician community. This is the first comprehensive audio tool in AS3 and a new twist on the musician community idea. Most examples from a few years back tried to incorporate live “jamming,” which suffered from the same problems video conferencing had.
I see both ideas converging in the near future.
Warning it’s in German, but music knows no linguistic boundaries:
Hobnox Audiotool im Test from Phlow on Vimeo.
Here’s a set of salient links on the state of gestural interfaces:
A commercial version. They’ve a patent on the video capture component, although I’m not sure how well it would stick up in court, since people have been doing this for quite a while and their logic diagram seems too vague for words.
Military/ Raytheon version with glove
IBM’s hopping on the bandwagon, but they’re a bit unclear what they mean by it.
Colin
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