pd-external: pix_openni 0.10

If you are working with Xbox Kinect Sensor here is another goodie for you – A pure data / Gem external to get Kinect rgb and depth streams as well as skeleton tracking and multiple hand tracking via OpenNI[ref name=”openni”]http://www.openni.org[/ref]

Download the packed Binaries for OSX and Windows pix_openni-0.10.zip .
Latest sourcecode available at github: http://github.com/kronihias/pix_openni

Look at this page if you don’t know how to install a Pd-External.

To control tilt, led and output accelerometer data you can use libfreenect based http://github.com/kronihias/freenect.
To get audio streams you can use libfreenect based http://github.com/kronihias/freenect_audio.
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pd-external: pix_freenect 0.10

(C)2011 Matthias Kronlachner

Version 0.10 of pix_freenect external for Pure Data/Gem now available.
Sourcecode and binary for OSX and Ubuntu 11.10 available at github: https://github.com/kronihias/pix_freenect

Look at this page if you don’t know how to install a Pd-External.

The pix_freenect external can output rgb and depth simultaneously from multiple Kinect sensors.

Features:

  • open specific Kinect sensor by serial number – useful for multiple Kinect installations
  • output registered depthmap -> rgb and depth image are aligned
  • output depthmap directly as 16 bit [mm] values
  • resolution of rgb image can be set to 1280×1024

To get audio streams you can use http://github.com/kronihias/freenect_audio.
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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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pd-kinect-examples

Find some examples about the usage of the externals pix_freenect, pix_openni, pix_threshold_depth, pix_depth2rgba, pix_head_pose_estimation on the Github page http://github.com/kronihias/pd-kinect-examples

In the moment just Mac OSX binaries of the externals are included. Windows binaries coming soon. Linux – please get the source from Github and build them by yourself.
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Pure Data Workshop – Vilnius, Lithuania

A Pure Data workshop series will be held on Wednesdays starting from September, 26th 2012 at 18:00-19:30.

Location: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), LMTA main building, Gedimino pr. 42, LT-01110 Vilnius, room 306

The course is open for everyone interested and will start from zero. It will cover topics relevant for sound artists, visual artists, composers, engineers, …

Please register per email:  mail (at) matthiaskronlachner.com .

What is Pure Data (Pd)?
Pure Data is a very flexible visual programming environment, developed by Miller Puckette for creating electronic music. It is available for free and many people contribute in extending it’s functionality. Today it is widely used for creating sound, visuals, data, multimedia installations, music composition, signal processing and analysis, … It can be seen as Open-Source alternative to MAX/MSP.
Due to its visual programming nature its usage is very intuitive.
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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.

3mal3 – network concert

(C)2012 Laura Lapienyteelectronic music and network bridge concert

3mal3 – in the net
Wednesday, 23rd of May, 2012

live from Restoranas Jalta[ref name=”jalta”]Restoranas Jalta[/ref] – Vilnius22:00
Matthias Kronlachner – electronics, sample piano, clarinet
Can Kazaz – electronics, recorder, toys

live from Postgarage[ref name=”postgarage”]Mittwochs-Exakt @ Postgarage Graz[/ref] Graz21:00
David Pirrò – electronics, keyboards
Peter Venus – electronics, french horn
Marian Weger – electronics, zither
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