woensdag 22 december 2010

Happy New (solar) Year

Midwinter, Full Moon and an Eclipse. What a great time for transition...

I celebrated it with my daughter Donna and friends in a sweat lodge at the Hobbitstee.

After letting go of the old the new starts to crystallize..

This winter I will concentrate on two 'dancetrument' projects.

A dancetrument is an efforts to turn body motion into music, something I have been experimenting with for the last 10 years. Starting with the famous mouse-boots I have tried many ideas so far, some were hilarious, most were fun but none far really worked well

The dancetruments I am working on this winter are:

1. the KaossWii:

Two Kaoss Pads and one Kaossilator controlled two WiiMote controllers. The code is in python and runs on Linux. I use it for Butoh type performances with long, slow movements.

2. the Kinect Looper:

A looper controlled by body position. So far I got a Kinect and have the openNi demo code for it running on my Ubuntu 64 bit system. I have the system design in my head so code hacking can start as soon as I am happy with the kaosswii.


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