RedEyes
RedEyes is a Tangible Musical Interface designed and developed by Omer Yosha, Roman Jäkel and Adam Danielsson as part of the course "New Musical Interfaces" by Prof.Boris Müller and Prof.Reto Wettach at the FH Potsdam in collaboration with Native Instruments.
RedEyes is a MIDI Interface that uses objects from our surroundings to represent sounds, effects and control functions.
Unlike popular methods of object recognition (such as Video tracking or RFID) which are relatively expensive or difficult to handle, RedEyes recognizes objects simply by their weight.
RedEyes consists of a surface on which an object can be placed and two infrared sensors located on the sides, used for playing instruments or changing effect parameters.
With RedEyes any weight could be mapped to a certain function or MIDI channel. These could then be controlled by moving the hands towards or away from the infrared sensors.
RedEyes lets you control and record two MIDI channels simultaneously, create loops, switch between instrument and drum modes, change tempo, volume and much more. In this way a complex music piece could be played.
RedEyes is still in its prototyping-phase and has at the moment 4 control buttons for some of its functions. The next RedEyes prototype will have no buttons and will be controlled only by objects.
RedEyes was programmed with Processing and uses the Arduino board. It was presented publicly on the 8th of February 2007 at Native Instruments.
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