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"3rd. Pole" -- A Composition Performed via Gestural Cues

Miha Ciglar

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

"3rd. Pole" is a musical composition that is performed by a dancer, on a specially designed interface (instrument), based on motion tracking technology. This paper introduces the technical and artistic ideas behind the composition and outlines some of the main conceptual tendencies of my earlier work [8]. Several independent components like choreography, instrument design, sound design, formal concepts, etc. were in parallel development throughout the last three years, and came together in this piece. Some of those were already realized in individual projects and are joined now under a new concept of interdependence. A major component of this project however was the implementation of a real-time gesture follower / gesture recognition algorithm applied to full-body motion data. This should be considered as an autonomous module, not allied to this particular project exclusively. Therefore it can be treated and developed independently -- as a multi-purpose data mapping strategy -- for it has the potential to find further use in any kind of interactive (dance, music, theatre, etc.) performance scenario.

Citation

Miha Ciglar. 2008. "3rd. Pole" -- A Composition Performed via Gestural Cues. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179511 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2008_Ciglar,
author = {Ciglar, Miha},
title = {"3rd. Pole" -- A Composition Performed via Gestural Cues},
pages = {203--206},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2008},
address = {Genoa, Italy},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179511},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_203.pdf},
keywords = {dancer, fig, from the system in, gesture recognition, haptic feedback, in, markers attached to the, motion tracking, nime08, s limbs, the dancer receives feedback, two ways},
abstract = {"3rd. Pole" is a musical composition that is performed by a dancer, on a specially designed interface (instrument), based on motion tracking technology. This paper introduces the technical and artistic ideas behind the composition and outlines some of the main conceptual tendencies of my earlier work [8]. Several independent components like choreography, instrument design, sound design, formal concepts, etc. were in parallel development throughout the last three years, and came together in this piece. Some of those were already realized in individual projects and are joined now under a new concept of interdependence. A major component of this project however was the implementation of a real-time gesture follower / gesture recognition algorithm applied to full-body motion data. This should be considered as an autonomous module, not allied to this particular project exclusively. Therefore it can be treated and developed independently -- as a multi-purpose data mapping strategy -- for it has the potential to find further use in any kind of interactive (dance, music, theatre, etc.) performance scenario.}
}