Well it’s taken two days hard work but my final year project is finally complete and in its testing stage.

Currently the project works by using motion tracking with a very primitive form of gesture recognition. The screen is divided into several sections (Percussion, String, Brass, Wood Wind), each section holding a different sound. The partcipant has to draw a circle over a section to activate a sound… The sound can be looped depending on how many circles a partcipant draws i.e. drawing 3 circles will loop the sound 3 times.

The sound can then be manipulated in speed by using the bar at the bottom. When the programme recognises two points over the same area within the bar it will change it to that location. This also works with the volume bar along the right hand side.

I’ve attached a couple of movies that record me playing with it… currently it tracks my blue pen (thanks barclays for your free pens) but when I come to testing it next week in the small media lab I will be using my light wand.

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