Kaleidoscope & Object Score Notation, the Next Generation
We had fun trying out the Kinect in the Constant’s office, Rue du Fortstraat and De Pianofabriek. In the end we decided to stick with our classical surveillance camera for this project !CoLAPseKode. Read the rest of this post
With the new objects grab & anim we created the following score. It goes with a small script and is best executed it with the residents of the house.
0/ video on stage – player 1 moves inside the imagined picture of the patio – grab stage_
The latest experience in De Pianofabriek made us dream about capturing a videostream and play it back on the spot in a transparancy mode, something that would require a very powerful processor. Toonloop, a tool that has been very much appreciated at Constant lately (since OSP brought it back from LGM Montreal), offered the methodology for the grab and anim object.
First we grabbed manually using Alt+g and ran this script to make the grabs transparant and show them with anim-object. You need to add a transparant image in the folder where you run the script (tran.png) and indicate the prefix it has to match [-m], the degree of transparancy [-p] and the output mentioned in the load message of the anim object [-o]:
$ tranimages.py -t tran.png -m prefix_ -p 50 -o letter_
… the time Simon finished creating the grab-object! Then we forgot about it 🙂
Both objects can be combined with a metronome function. Just one click and the machine films the scene & plays it back!
What a joy!
Other objects Simon added in the Brussels’ residency were route & body_route to guide information from one precise body to different objects and osc_in.
This time in De Pianofabriek we had the permission to connect objscrs to one of the surveillance cameras in the matrix room. During the entire week we could switch permanently between the ‘stage’ and ‘the patio’, which caused a lot of confusion in our heads in the first place.
swapping between cameras & using overlays
The connection was smooth: thanks to the stageboxes DPF can beam the video stream up in less than 5 minutes. The videoswitcher that was part of their previous surveillance system (and almost ended up in the trash) found a new life:
As part of the manual set of scores jeudesjeux_beeldverhaal.xml wants to illustrate the principle of triggering image and sound through the position of the body. It uses the logo in places surveiled by cameras – this is imposed by the Belgian law (img above left). The lines are filled with text about the routes people tend to take daily, depending on parameters as ‘work’, ‘weather’, ‘time’, ‘company’ etc. The text is used in following scores to play with.
We felt the need to change the image into something ‘more human’. Read the rest of this post
For ‘Le Jeu des jeux’ in Poitiers we played without video and text display, as both objects need stabilizing.
We proposed 7 games as a manual, the audience had the possibility to play back the games.
Herewith you find:
– the scores
– the images
– the pd-patch (connected to an electric guitar)
The Roberta Miss & Barbara Decloux line has been successfully exported to Poitiers!
