A Full-body Gesture Recognition System and its Integration in the Composition '3rd. Pole'
Miha Ciglar · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2009
3 rd .Pole" is the working title for a composition that is to be performed by a dancer on a specially designed gestural interface, based on optical motion tracking technology.This paper introduces the technical and artistic concepts developed during the last one year of research.Though some of the artistic ideas were already introduced in my earlier works [7], they are tightly interwoven with the technical concepts of pattern recognition techniques, which are clearly dominating my current research and the content of this paper.It is important that the reader is aware of the fact that the motivation behind this project is inspired by a new approach to composition, with the goal of generating a musical result.However, the concepts of full-body gesture recognition that are to be described in the first chapters may be repurposed or integrated in any other practical or artistic context.The composition "3 rd .Pole" is still in development and has not publicly been performed yet, hence there is always the possibility of conceptual deviations when all the elements described in this paper will eventually come together in the final realization.