-
Baby Laptop Orchestra
Originaly concieved as a workshop for Sonar Kids, in CosmoCaixa, we are currently developing new instruments that explore interactiviy between music and visual arts. A performer draws, paints or cuts out an instrument. A camera placed on top of this turntable or surface captures it and the software generates sound according to certain parameters such […]
-
Núvol
An audio-visual instrument. Play a sound cloud with body gestures. Specially developed for the concert of Sons del Sud, a collaboration between Barcelona Laptop Orchestra and Institut Goethe. Three writers (Judith Kuckart for Barcelona, Nora Gomringer for Genoa and Juli Zeh for Lisbon) used soundscapes alone as starting point for their writings. They were then […]
-
Roda
La Roda is a multi-player instrument. It’s a turn-based acumulative sound-editing engine. Based on the chinese whispers game, it was conceived as a collective improvisational tool. All players are connected and the audio signal goes from one player to the next, sequentially. Each player contributes by modifying the signal on it’s turn. This accumulative process (sometimes collaborative […]
-
V-Cloner
An audio-visual sampler/loopstation. Audio and video are captured in real-time and samples are handled through an interface or with an external remote controller via ethernet. The audio manager was developed in max/msp and C++ (Playmodes) takes care of the video. This would be a possible session layout. Following is a demo with the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra
-
Mastegador de Crooners
Video sampler, interactive video controller or interactive movie device. Controller: A user interface developed with Processing is cast on a methacrylate surface. A wiimote tracks an IR-LED pointer that the player uses to handle the user interface. The wiimote then sends the tracking information via bluetooth to the computer, which processes the information and updates the user interface […]
-
D_Scratch
Digital turntable. This was born from the need of some kind of device to scratch digital audio on stage, that was easy to carry along and that did not depend on the hardware available at the gig site. The controller is a touch-screen (placed horizontally) displaying a video of one single turn of a real […]