The Kinect distance sensor as human-machine-interface in audio-visual art projects

excerpt of project thesis

excerpt of project thesis

I finished my project thesis including general information about the Microsoft Kinect sensor device as well as a detailed documentation about it’s application in combination with Pure Data and Gem.

This document might be useful for people working with the Kinect in combination with interactive sound and video installations and performances.

Get the PDF document here!

übersetzen – vertimas | piece for dancer, sound and projection

Greta Grinevičiūtė - dance

For the JAUNA MUZIKA[ref name=”jm”]JAUNA MUZIKA 2012[/ref] 2012 Festival in Vilnius – Lithuania, I’m preparing the piece Übersetzen – vertimas for dancer, sound and projection.

Sunday, April 15th, 2012 – 16.00
LMTA Chamber Hall, Building 2 – Tilto str. 16, Vilnius

Greta Grinevičiūtė – dance
Aira Naginevičiūtė – choreography
Matthias Kronlachner – technology, sound

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Live Interfaces

I’ll be presenting my work for the Kinect sensor and Pure Data/Gem at the LIVE INTERFACES: Performance, Art, Music[ref name=”li”]Live Interfaces http://icsrim.org.uk/liveinterfaces/[/ref] conference.

Find the material here:
lipam2012-kronlachner-paper.pdf
lipam2012-kronlachner-poster.pdf

A substantial project report about all Kinect plugins and examples will be available soon.

freiräumen – die politik des do-it-yourself

dokumentarfilm, 16:9 dvcprohd, stereo, 90min

schnitt – mario hengster und andreas kurz
dramaturgische beratung – emily artmann
sounddesign – matthias kronlachner
finishing – robert breber
kamera – mario hengster
regie – andreas kurz

after the premiere of freiräumen on June, 29th the documentary movie can be seen at following locations:

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IEM Computermusic Ensemble Concert Graz and Vilnius

ICE @ Porgy&Bess ViennaOn Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 will be the next concert of ICE – IEM Computermusic Ensemble. This networkconcert will be held in two locations at the same time. Listen to it in Graz – Austria or Vilnius – Lithuania.
LMTA[ref name=”lmta”]Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Gedimino pr. 42, LT-01110 Vilnius, Lithuania[/ref] central building – Room 306, Vilnius
IEM[ref name=”iem”]Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Inffeldgasse 10/3, 8010 Graz, Austria[/ref] Cube – Graz

Announcement in lithuanian language
Announcement in english language

concert starts at
20:00 Graz local time
21:00 Vilnius local time

“extended fields” – ICE (IEM Computermusic Ensemble)

Musicians:
– Jamilla Ballint
– Clara Hollomey
– Wen Liu
– Peter Venus
– Marian Weger
– Matthias Kronlachner (remote from Vilnius)
– Uluğ Can Kazaz (remote from Vilnius)
– guest: Daniel Hojka

Director: Winfried Ritsch
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tagebuch 2.0

make them see and hear what they write – this is how facebook postings look and sound like

this installation is based on an arduino[ref name=”arduino”]http://www.arduino.cc[/ref]-powered diary with integrated lcd display and buttons to navigate through postings of my facebook friends.
an aluminum can is used as loudspeaker and reads you the news from facebook.

computer software written in pure-data[ref name=”pd”]http://puredata.info[/ref] and PHP feeds the diary and aluminum can with statusmessages directly from my facebook friends.

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