Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 7-11-2012
Abstract
This paper presents a temporary multimedia installation set up at the Civic Aquarium of Milan. Thanks to four web cameras located in front of the tropical fishpond, fish are tracked and their movements are used to control a number of music-related parameters in real time. In order to process multiple video streams, the open-source programming language Processing has been employed. Then, the sonification is implemented by a Pure Data patch. The communication among the parts of the system has been realized through Open Sound Control (OSC) messages. This paper describes the key concepts, the musical idea, the design phase and the implementation of this installation, discussing also the major critical aspects.
Recommended Citation
Baldan S, Ludovico LA, Mauro DA. “Musica Sull’Acqua”: A Motion Tracking Based Sonification of an Aquarium in Real Time. In Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 11-14, 2012). Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012, 69-74.
Comments
Copyright: © 2012 Stefano Baldan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.