Music-in-Motion

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Introduction

brief description Music in Motion is an interactive sound-art installation that uses the motion of balloons through a performance space to modulate and move the 3D placement of synthesized sounds in realtime. MiM utilizes one webcam and the cv.jit Max library to determine the location and color of balloons thrown by participants. The position data is sent from Max to Ableton Live where it is used to artificially pan synthesizers using first-order ambisonics panning plugin of Envelop for Live, as well as modulate synth pitches, filter sweeps, and other effects in realtime. Different balloon colors will be tied to different timbres and “instruments,” as well. MiM should be tuned such that participants are clearly aware of how the motion of their balloons changes the sound in the space. Ideally, I hope for the motion tracking & ambisonics panning to be robust enough that a participant could throw a balloon and hear the perceived sound source of their balloon’s “instrument” move away from them, directly in motion with the balloon.