Objscrs is the motion tracking software that was used for Kaleidoscope. The program allows you to interpret the movement of objects and bodies in a live video image using different types of sensor zones.
The latest version of this software was developed by Simon Yuill as the negociation platform for the installation-performance Kaleidoscope. Code, manual and documentation can be found here and can be used, copied and distributed freely.
Enjoy!
A video of the Kaleidoscope-performance can be found here:
Filming: Christina Clar
Editing: Robin Vandenbergh
Ce texte peut être utilisé pour le jeu de Kaleidoscope.
Copyright: 2009, An Mertens. Copyleft : cette oeuvre est libre, vous pouvez la redistribuer et/ou la modifier selon les termes de la Licence Art Libre. Vous trouverez un exemplaire de cette Licence sur le site Copyleft Attitude http://www.artlibre.org ainsi que sur d’autres sites.
Or how a place can change a look:
Ingredients:
- Object Score Notation
- black floor
- sounds
Create as many zones as the floor can take. Attach a soundfile to each zone.
Ingredients:
- n players (movement/sound/voice)
- computer installed with Object Score Notation
- 1 story recorded by order of the frequency of words
- variables: speed, volume
Score:
The computer gives voice to the story, players interpret the story with movement and sound.
Variation 1: surveillance: one player giving voice walks along the variables on scene, adds voice to the computer or silences, regulates volume and speed. Others execute/follow.
Variation 2: guiding: players follow but can also create deviations of the story. 1 player regulates the machine by silencing it, speeding it up, slowing it down, regulating the volume, installing the machine as a potent leader.
Variation 3: collaborative: all players can either follow the story, create deviations or guide machine
Ingredients:
- 1 camera
- 1 beamer
- lights
- 7 players
- 1 or more white hats with black number on top
- costumes with white rectangular zones
Time: for as long as the computer is out (stolen, crashed, bugged, or just switched off on purpose)
Instructions:
All players are functions of the software, apart of the one who is wearing the hat. 6 players work together in order to give instructions to the player who is wearing the hat. The hat-player(s) executes the instructions.
Instructions can be:
- show/hide img (fixed image) or vid (video = moving image + sound)
- play/stop snd (can be any sound)
Variation:
1. if you are a function of the software, link yourself physically to the players you’re communicating with (by using ropes, tape…)
2. negociate a way to play when all technology falls out (flashlights might help)
Object Score Notation:
