sketching the futurescapes ///// a research blog by Sebastian Gonzalez Dixon

Interactive Dance Performance using Kinect from WE.DREAM CO on Vimeo.

Interactive digital content and software of the “Tahteravalli” dance show was developed by We Dream.
Motion tracking algorithm, creates visuals based on projective coordinates of each dancer on XYZ plane.
Setup uses a Kinect™ Sensor, 8000 Lumen projector. The software development finished in 10 Days and debugged in 2 days.
“Tahteravalli” was a live dance show, organized by Bilgi University students.

The official music video for Nosaj Thing’s “Eclipse/Blue,” by Daito Manabe, takcom, Satoru Higa, and MIKIKO with support from The Creators Project.

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“Eclipse/Blue,” featuring vocals by Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino, is the first single off Nosaj Thing’s upcoming album Home (out 01/22/13).

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Credits:
Written by Jason Chung (Nosaj Thing BMI) & Kazu Makino (Kazu Makino Publishing BMI)
Mastered by David Ives at 101 Mastering
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LIVING ROOM by recoil from Tina Tarpgaard on Vimeo.

LIVING ROOM is a room in motion, evoked not just by the dancers but also by an almost organically living video scenography. The floor gives in, the floor disappears – the space begins to breathe….
Creating a meeting between the human body and a motion sensitive scenography,
LIVING ROOM questions who is the puppet and who is the puppeteer – who controls who?
LIVING ROOM is nominated to Best Dance Performance of the year at the Danish Performing Arts Awards 2012.
(Reumert Awards)

Dancers: Nelson Smith, Siri Wolthoorn, Rumiko Otsuka, Jonas Örknér
Choreographer: Tina Tarpgaard
Video scenography: Ole Kristensen og Jonas Jongejan
Composer: Pelle Skovmand
Lighting design: Frederik Heitman
Assistant and much more: Jonas Corneliussen
Costume design: Inbal Lieblich

Premièred March 12th 2012
At Store Carl, Dansehallerne, Pasteursvej 20, Copenhagen V, Denmark

Hailed by The Australian as the countrys best modern dance company, choreographer Gideon Obarzaneks Chunky Move dazzles audiences with its use of site-specific installations and interactive sound and light technologies. Obarzanek’s avant-garde performances explore the tensions between the rational world we live in and richness of our imagination.

unnamed soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

produced by:
www.onformative.com
www.chopchop.cc

Documentation:
http://vimeo.com/38505448

Music: Machinefabriek "Kreukeltape"
http://www.machinefabriek.nu/

The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating
a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For
our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by
Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was
recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the
images was later put together to a three-dimensional volume (3d point cloud),
so we were able to use the collected data throughout the further process.
The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the
digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts
to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the
performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the
random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering
a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality
of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer,
as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.

The body – constant and indefinite at the same time – “bursts” the space
already with its mere physicality, creating a first distinction between the self
and its environment. Only the body movements create a reference to the
otherwise invisible space, much like the dots bounce on the ground to give it
a physical dimension. Thus, the sound-dance constellation in the video does
not only simulate a purely virtual space. The complex dynamics of the body
movements is also strongly self-referential. With the complex quasi-static,
inconsistent forms the body is “painting”, a new reality space emerges whose
simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes.

Similar to painting, a single point appears to be still very abstract, but the
more points are connected to each other, the more complex and concrete
the image seems. The more perfect and complex the “alternative worlds” we
project (Vilém Flusser) and the closer together their point elements, the more
tangible they become. A digital body, consisting of 22 000 points, thus seems
so real that it comes to life again.
text: Sandra Moskova

nominated for the for the MuVi Award:
http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/competitions/muvi-award/selection.html

see video in full quallity:
www.daniel-franke.com/unnamed_soundsculpture.mov

HQ Stills
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37752604@N05/sets/72157629203600952/

Staub Leben from lasal on Vimeo.

UdK Berlin
Intermediales Bewegungslabor.
Campus-Kollision 2. bis 6. Januar 2012
HZT-Uferstudios.

Prof. Nik Haffner: Projektleitung.
Arístides García: Projektleitung, Konzept, Programmierung.
Nikola Pieper: Technische Leitung.
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Körper:
Emilia Pfohl, Marine Bertrand, Hanne Müller, Marieke Hohberge, Swann Nowak.

Juan Gabriel Harcha : Tanzer
Hannes Mück : Kamera
Musik: Volta do mar, Sound after day
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Special thanks to Dottore, Mr Vux, Unc, and the VVVV developers.

fidelity [extracts] from visiophone on Vimeo.

FIDELITY is an interactive-video-dance performance.
GAP gallery. Barcelona, May, 2011

choreography: Natalia Brownlie
live visuals: Rodrigo Carvalho
sound design: Miguel Neto [*original sound track : eDit_ants]
live camera: Paulo Pinto

Live visuals with VDMX and QuartzComposer (using rutt etra (by v002.info, and badtv by memo.tv)
PointCloud silluete (at 3:40) with Kinect and 1024KinectFun patch by 1024 architecture (1024d.wordpress.com/).

See the full performance here :: www.vimeo.com/26575684

An excellent reel that mix dance and video mapping.

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Today I found this project I made two years ago with a friend (and fatal enemy) during my living at Barcelona. Click the image to play it Online. You can watch it with each of the 6 songs, from the selection list, and every time it will react differently, according to the music.

Interactive Video here

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