LichtGestalt: Interaction with Sound Through Swarms of Light Rays

Jonas Fehr; Cumhur Erkut

LichtGestalt: Interaction with Sound Through Swarms of Light Rays

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We present a new interactive sound installation to be explored by movement. Specifically, movement qualities extracted from the motion tracking data excite a dynamical system (a synthetic flock of agents), which responds to the movement qualities and indirectly controls the visual and sonic feedback of the interface. In other words, the relationship between gesture and sound are mediated by synthetic swarms of light rays. Sonic interaction design of the system uses density as a design dimension, and maps the swarm parameters to sound synthesis parameters. Three swarm behaviors and three sound models are implemented, and evaluation suggests that the general approach is promising and the system has potential to engage the user.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Int. Conference Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-15)
Editors	Joseph Timoney, Thomas Lysaght
Number of pages	6
Place of Publication	Maynooth, Ireland
Publisher	Music Technology Research Group, Maynooth University
Publication date	1 Jul 2015
Pages	527-532
ISBN (Print)	9-7809-92746629
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2015
Event	The 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2015) - Maynooth, Ireland Duration: 26 Jul 2015 → 1 Aug 2015

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Conference	The 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2015)
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Maynooth
Period	26/07/2015 → 01/08/2015

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Fehr, J & Erkut, C 2015, LichtGestalt: Interaction with Sound Through Swarms of Light Rays. in J Timoney & T Lysaght (eds), Proceedings of the 12th Int. Conference Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-15). Music Technology Research Group, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, pp. 527-532, The 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2015), Maynooth, Ireland, 26/07/2015. <http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/smc15/>

LichtGestalt: Interaction with Sound Through Swarms of Light Rays. / Fehr, Jonas; Erkut, Cumhur.
Proceedings of the 12th Int. Conference Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-15). ed. / Joseph Timoney; Thomas Lysaght. Maynooth, Ireland: Music Technology Research Group, Maynooth University, 2015. p. 527-532.

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