Project Description
The Turntable is a fully
working music interface and sound generator, based on
object and colour tracking
Through 2 distance sensors
and a video camera, spinning objects on its deck
are constantly tracked and measured, and that information is turned into sound,
loops and music.
The whole concept of The
turntablee is based on the repetition of sound through
the constant spinning of the objects, acting as a physical, materialized secuencer.
Regular turntables play
vinyls on a 2 dimensional basis, but TheTurntable plays 3D
records (!). TheTurntable utilizes “LEGO Discs”, as opposed to
vinyl discs, so the
objects can remain fixedon the deck surface, and since they are spinning at
a con-
stant speed, when measured andconverted into sound, these sounds will turn
into
repetitive loops and music patterns, whichcan be modified in real time for
song com-
position and jamming.
Simultaneously, the video camera tracks the colors of the LEGO pieces, and
the
data is also converted into sound, basically acting as a “color synthesizer”,
and
adding a third variable of sound control and manipulation.
TheTurntable can be a MIDI controller, a synthesizer or both simultaneously,
and it is specifically designed for live performances.
Equipment
The Turntable is based
on a Modified Thorens Turntable,
2 Sharp distance sensors and a High Res Video Camera
connected to a Laptop utilizing MaxMSP, Jitter, and rewired
to Ableton Live.
Videos(Mac OSX 10.3.9 or higher with QuickTime)
Full Performance: Ode to John Candy (The Formado & James Tobin)
Ode to John Candy (MPEG4 version)
Images
About the author:
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Faustino Moneta
was born in Argentina, and is currently finishing his MA in Interactive
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