Thursday 16 October 2014

Week 11 Contact Class Exercise

Imagine a Theremin Duet or orchestra. Generate concepts for consistently reproducing & representing 3D movement in space that allows a musical composition to be accurately played on a Theremin. 

1. Using a Wii Remote or a Kinect Sensor or even a PS Camera to detect motions on both right and left hands. There should also be a monitor that constantly displays the positions of both hands at a suitable frame rate (24fps). With the monitor, user could track the amount of pitch and depth of the sound easily and hence make music out of the Theremin instrument!

2. Two strings method; one horizontally and the other vertically. These strings have sensors that can calculate the length/distance of an item, or solid rock on it that could be made as a controller. In each of the strings, there will be a node that acts like a controller. User moves these two nodes within the two strings and the position of it will be detected, hence a theremin instrument can be created.

3. Use two infrared sensors. These two sensors will detect the user's hand movements. one moving up and down and the other move away or close to the sensor. A theremin instrument is created here.

Pugh Matrix to compare concepts. What criteria important to measure against?



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