How to Conduct a Pipe Organ Concert with a Kinect

The Kinect has been re - purposed for projects ranging frompiloting UAV dronesto steeringshopping carts , so why not use one to play Melbourne Town Hall ’s 4 - account electronic organ like a gigantic theremin ?

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Composer Chris Vik did just that , develop the KiNECTAR programme in 2011 . According to Vik , it is an , “ interface where I could learn different ascendancy mechanism to use human input and movement to touch off note and trigger events musically . ” fundamentally , the software provide him to build a series of commands that actuate calculate on his various helping hand and body positions . Each position occupies a virtually partition field in the the space around him that the Kinect can recognize . With this , Vik can program individual notes , chords , and even scale into each action , then string action together into a melodious composing . The video above exhibit the KiNECTAR in action with a snippet from Vik ’s performance of “ Carpe Zythum ” last November . [ The Register ]