Re: laptops and performance

["miles ward" <miles932@gmail.com>]

My good friend Lee is @ NYU working direct with Ken Perlin (Perlin
Noise.. Genius)  on a multi-touch, multi display panel that makes
Surface look like a monochrome CRT.  Not only senses multiple touches,
senses proximity to the surface within 6 inches, and is projector
based, so can illuminate above and below a clear panel, so there's
lights projected down on your hands or other implements..
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/index.html
It's acrylic based, so you should be able to make oddly shaped acrylic
objects, and model touch on them... imagine a digital guitar that's
just a big strat shaped piece of clear plastic, with no strings, that
you can play?!

We live in an amazing world.
-Miles

On 6/15/07, Qua Veda <qua@oregon.com> wrote:
>  Seems that Midi controllers (or other controllers) allow the computer to
> 'sit there crunching numbers'  while the performer moves around or sets
> his/her hair on fire or whatever.
>
> Foot controllers, data goves, sensors, faders , eventually control 
>surfaces
> like the Microsoft Surface,  or perhaps floor sensors like disco floors,
> would allow for some intersting performances  - whether the computer is a
> laptop or rack mount.
>
> -Qua
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: miles ward [mailto:miles932@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:17 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: laptops and performance
>
> I agree; that's the central challenge with digital instruments from my
> opinion, as amazing as they are at doing things _exactly_ how do you take
> that energy from the crowd and turn it back around into more energetic
> playing?  click harder?
> Still frustrated that there's no midi controller for tuba...
> -Miles
>
>


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---Miles Ward