The video of an "Amoeba" installation "Live" exhibited during the festival "Music in touch" 2011 (Cagliari)

This performance was recorded during the festival "Music in touch 2011", the "Ameoba" performer is Marco Salaris (Terminale3)     "Ameoeba" is an interactive multimedia installation and / or a synthesizer with a unconventional interface. The "Amoebas" (that are projected on the screen) are elastic / sound deformable forms that the viewer can drag and deform with the gesture of his hands through the NUI (Natural User Interface) that is used. This NUI consists in a “Microsoft Kinect”(*) connected to the software of the installation (developed in Processing and Pure Data) through a proxy software (Osceleton) and OpenNI(*) driver that convert the users hand gestures to a 3d coordinates. The deformation and displacement of the "Amoeba" determines the transformation of sounds, produced by different synthesis techniques, and the particular interactive gesture leads to a unusual executive modes. (*) Microsoft Kinect and OpenNI are trade mark.



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