team members report:
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*technology:
technical notes on the technology used for OverTime. |
| Diem suit |
Malene Schjønning and Liz Pearlman both wear the DIEM suit, developed at the Danish Institute for Electronic Music. The suit consists of bend sensors attached to a radio control pack. The sensors translate the range of motion of a joint into MIDI data (numbers from 0-127), and the pack sends the data to the computer. Diana Torba wears accelerometers which translate the speed of motion in her hands to MIDI data. |
| Director/Track Them Colors |
For the interactive video component of the performance, Alex Lee used an extra called Track Them Colors for Director written by Daniel Rozin, from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York University. The extra allows one to track specific colors or change from a video input, and process the information in Director. |
| max MSP |
Interfaces to translate the MIDI data into sound were designed mostly by
Nicholas Marantz in Max/MSP, a graphical object-oriented programming language. Ultimately these interfaces will also translate the MIDI data into inflation protocols for the suit. The granular synthesis external used in Pearlman and Torba's duet was designed by the great Dan Trueman of the Columbia Computer Music Center, and is available for public consumption here. The resonant filter used in Malene Schjønning's solo was designed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, France. |
*tech list:
technical list on the hardware and software needed to perform OverTime. |
| Hardware |
2 G4
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| Software |
Max MSP
Nato
Director
Final Cut Pro |
| Sensors |
DIEM suit + packs
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| Projection |
3 video projectors
2 mini DV players
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