Im WinterSemester 2007/08 experimentierten Christian Hertlein und Desirée Sauter im Kurs Advanced Media, betreut von Matthias Ljungström, zu dem Thema "Playing with Gestures" mit dem Wii RemoteControlller. Sie suchten nach neuen Eingabemöglichkeiten, die die ursprüngliche Einsatzweise des Controllers verfremden sollte.
Expressive Musical Interface for Non-Musicians
We present the concept and prototype of a new musical interface that utilizes the close relationship between gestural expression in the act of painting and that of playing a musical instrument in order to provide non-musicians the opportunity to create musical expression. A physical brush on a canvas acts as the instrument. The characteristics of its stroke are intuitively mapped to a conductor program, defining expressive parameters of the tone in real-time. Two different interaction modes highlight the importance of bodily expression in making music as well as the value of a metaphorical visual representation.
