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Kinectofon: Performing with Shapes in Planes

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The paper presents the Kinectofon, an instrument for creating sounds through free-hand interaction in a 3D space. The instrument is based on the RGB anddepth image streams retrieved from a Microsoft Kinect sensor device. These twoimage streams are used to create different types of motiongrams, which, again, are used as the source material for a sonification process based on inverse FFT. The instrument is intuitive to play, allowing the performer to createsound by "touching" a virtual sound wall.

Citation

Alexander Refsum Jensenius. 2013. Kinectofon: Performing with Shapes in Planes. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178564 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2013_Jensenius,
author = {Alexander Refsum Jensenius},
title = {Kinectofon: Performing with Shapes in Planes},
pages = {196--197},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2013},
month = {May},
publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178564},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_110.pdf},
keywords = {Kinect, motiongram, sonification, video analysis},
abstract = {The paper presents the Kinectofon, an instrument for creating sounds through free-hand interaction in a 3D space. The instrument is based on the RGB anddepth image streams retrieved from a Microsoft Kinect sensor device. These twoimage streams are used to create different types of motiongrams, which, again, are used as the source material for a sonification process based on inverse FFT. The instrument is intuitive to play, allowing the performer to createsound by "touching" a virtual sound wall.}
}