>> I guess the air-guitar will have a a good chance for a come-back once >> laptops are out of style ;) > > There are people developing sensors for the hands/fingers that can read > motion in three dimensions and map that to software controllers, to > produce a playable air-guitar. ;-) sensors are too complicated. gnu-air-guitar just needs a v4l camera to recognize famous metal-guitarists poses! seriously, I've only seen *one* outstanding performance: a japanese pantomime guy telling a sci-fi stories with Max/DSP. - he had 3 sensors: - distance between hands ( 1 dimension) - acceleration sensor on each hand. (possibly 2 or 3 D. each) - foot-panel (to switch scenes, start/stop, used rarely) he toggled modes by quickly shaking one of his hands. Most environments had pitch on hand-rotation and speed/volume on the hand-distance or a derivative thereof. - the story was prepared, but improvised. the setup was simple, but it allowed him to both: act freely and have a subtle control over the sound environment. and most important: it was a convincing instrument and soundscapes. the audience could make a connection between his action and the sound . with ~100ms latency ;) - about 1 years ago ! > IMO, laptops, computer keyboards, etc, are very thin and unexpressive > replacements for the rich interfaces that we know as real musical > instruments - guitars, violins, horns, etc. Human hands and fingers, > human breath control, have been developed and refined for thousands of > years. Computer user interfaces have a long ways to do to develop that > degree of expressiveness. One can use a classical instrument to interface to a computer! - If s.o. want to make a "glove" to play violin: nice experiment. go and build a vibrating block to simulate the neck/ear feeling first. A computer is never a replacement for a /real/ music instrument. For some it can come pretty close until the battery runs out.. - But as we all know: computers can generate sound like nothing else! I've heard of 4 year old violin players, and people who spend > 14 hours with a saxophone each day. - the Guinness book or records is still looking for the pure-data-kid. lol. robin PS. there are those who do not hear the difference, and will settle for playing sensor-air-guitar. - beware: they might even be the marketing-majority in a few years. PPS. no battle but art: a while back I stumbled over a text-adventure written in postscript. playable entirely with the Formfeed and Rewind button. (though ghostview was more handy) - are there similar linux-audio pieces? - any `while (true); do ls -l /dev > /dev/dsp & sleep 1 ;done;` remixes out there? techno-bash(7) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
