Controlling Musical Tempo from Dance Movement in Real-Time: A Possible Approach
Carlos Guedes · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2003
In this paper, I present a possible approach for the control of musical tempo in real-time from dance movement. This is done through the processing of video analysis data from a USB web cam that is used to capture the movement sequences. The system presented here, consists of a library of Max externals that is currently under development. This set of Max externals processes video analysis data from other libraries and objects that already do this type of analyses in real-time in this programming environment such as Cyclops (Singer 2001) and softVNS2 (Rokeby 2002). The aim for the creation of such system is to enable dancers the control of musical tempo in real-time in interactive dance environments. In this session I will also do a short a demonstration of the performance of the objects created so far.