Podium

Interval Research, Expression Group, 1997

Project Description: I constructed a podium to be used as musical instrument. I created a surface onto which users could place various found objects.  The identity, position and orientation of the objects, as sensed by a video camera, changed the parameters of a physical model in the VL1 MIDI synthesizer.  The notes played by the synth were determined by another musical instrument.

Technical Notes: I used Macromedia Director/Lingo with Danny Rozin's Video XTRA to track the objects. I used HyperMidi to communicate with the MIDI synthesizer.