Kinect Body Instruments - Boss Kite @ More Kicks Than Friends

2020 saw me sink my teeth back into my kinect body instruments project having the opportunity to perform on a few online platforms. The system has had a bit of an overhaul as I’ve been trying to create a patch to use across a whole performance, rather than thinking of the tracking camera as a control for individual instruments. The system uses a kinect 2.0 to track my limbs, convert joint locations in space to MIDI data, and from there control a whole host of samplers, synthesizers and FX parameters inside of Ableton Live.

Electronic music performance using a custom software patch translating body movements to sound control using an infrared camera, Max/Msp and Ableton Livewww....