Gestural Control of Music Using the Vicon 8 Motion Capture System

Christopher Dobrian, and Frédéric Bevilacqua

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This article reports on a project that uses unfettered gestural motion for expressive musical purposes. The project involves the development of, and experimentation with, software to receive data from a Vicon motion capture system, and to translate and map that data into data for the control of music and other media such as lighting. In addition to the commercially standard MIDI-which allows direct control of external synthesizers, processors, and other devices-other mappings are used for direct software control of digital audio and video. This report describes the design and implementation of the software, discusses specific experiments performed with it, and evaluates its application in terms of aesthetic pros and cons.

Citation:

Christopher Dobrian, and Frédéric Bevilacqua. 2003. Gestural Control of Music Using the Vicon 8 Motion Capture System. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176503

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Dobrian2003,
 abstract = {This article reports on a project that uses unfettered gestural motion for expressive musical purposes. The project involves the development of, and experimentation with, software to receive data from a Vicon motion capture system, and to translate and map that data into data for the control of music and other media such as lighting. In addition to the commercially standard MIDI-which allows direct control of external synthesizers, processors, and other devices-other mappings are used for direct software control of digital audio and video. This report describes the design and implementation of the software, discusses specific experiments performed with it, and evaluates its application in terms of aesthetic pros and cons.},
 address = {Montreal, Canada},
 author = {Dobrian, Christopher and Bevilacqua, Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {22-24 May, 2003},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176503},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Motion capture, gestural control, mapping. },
 pages = {161--163},
 title = {Gestural Control of Music Using the Vicon 8 Motion Capture System},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2003/nime2003_161.pdf},
 year = {2003}
}