Here is a little plug for the submission deadline for this year’s NIME conference.
Posted on Friday 18 January 2013 Saturday 19 January 2013 Categories Software NIME 2013 deadline approaching
It has been a fun project to work on, particularly as it has required to develop something that will run for much, much longer than anything else I have created previously.
The interface for the application is shown below. The most challenging part was to create a solid TCP-connection to the web server, and to secure that the hardware and software can run for many years without interruption. The analysis program has been developed in the graphical programming environment Max, using the analyzer~ external for the audio analysis, and some components from the Jamoma library. To the right is a screenshot of how the logo looks on the web page, and below are a couple of examples of different shapes that appear.
The logo generator interprets the three sound parameters, and modifies the shapes, sizes and colours of the graphical elements in the logo. The audio signals from the microphones are fed to an analysis program, which in turn sends three global and perceptual paramaters (sound level, sharpness, and noisiness) to the logo generator running at the web server. The system I have developed is based on microphones in the canteen and the two concert halls. I was asked to contribute to making this new dynamic logo dynamic, and we ended up basing the system on analysis of the sound of the school. As part of the visual profile, they wanted to create a dynamic logo, continuously reflecting the activities at the school. The Norwegian Academy of Music launched their new web page and logo today. Posted on Tuesday 22 January 2013 Tuesday 22 January 2013 Categories Research Tags kinect, Max, patch, sonifyer, Video Dynamic logo at the Norwegian Academy of Music This video is not particularly interesting in itself, but I can reveal that it actually leads to some interesting sonic results when run through my sonifyer technique. So here it is:īelow is a short video recorded with the patch, showing some basic movement patterns.
The patch is not particularly fancy, but I imagine that it could be useful for other people interested in recording video from the Kinect, either for analytical applications or for testing performance setups when not having access to a Kinect device. Files will be stored as with MJPEG compression and named with the current date and time. As the screenshot below shows, there is not much more to the patch than starting the video input from the Kinect, and then start the recording. For that reason I have created a small Max patch called KinectRecorder, which allows for easy recording of one combined video file from the two inputs (regular video image and depth image) from the Kinect. To be able to create figures for the paper, I needed to record the input from a Kinect to a regular video file.
The new thing is that I am now using the inputs from a Kinect device as the source material for the sonification, which opens up for using also the depth in the image as an element in the process. I am currently working on a paper describing some further exploration of the sonifyer technique and module that I have previously published on. Good luck with the application writing! Posted on Sunday 3 February 2013 Categories Projects Tags LaTeX KinectRecorder
Also, the ERC tends to change the template a little from year to year, so you should always check with the latest MS Word template. Please be aware that this template is absolutely unofficial. ARJ’s unofficial ERC Starting Grant LaTeX template.Sharing is fun, so if anyone wants to save a little bit of time, here you can get a stripped-down version of my LaTeX file: The most important is that I did not get any complaints from the ERC about the looks of the document (and I made it to the final Brussel interviews last year, though not getting funded, unfortunately). The end result is not identical to the MS Word output, but it is pretty close. My scientific workflow is so dependent on LaTeX/BibTeX that I decided to recreate a LaTeX document setup that resembled the MS Word template. Unfortunately, the ERC does not provide any LaTeX template, only templates for MS Word and OpenOffice. After I mentioned that I used LaTeX for an ERC Starting Grant application in a previous blog post, I have gotten several questions from people about what type of LaTeX template I used.