Re : [tuning] Re: Fantasy grande

Monz wrote:

> Imagine putting on your virtual-reality goggles, and building
> a lattice of pitch relationships in 3- (or more?) dimensional
> space around your body. Then you simply dance around inside
> the lattice to create your music. The closer your hands (or
> feet) come to any individual lattice-point, the louder it
> becomes. Sort of a multi-dimensional harmonically quantized
> theremin...

I'm sure this is very close future!
Merce Cunningham realised the choreography for his latest ballet Biped with
the aid of IBM software. Patches were fixed on several spots of the dancer's
bodies, so that their mouvements could be translated exactly into a
three-dimensional program. During the live-performance these mouvements are
projected as holograms and mix themselves fluently with the real dancers on
stage. Cunningham uses this software to create his chroreographies since a
few years. It's quite easy to imagine that the same program can combine
itself with your three-dimensional lattices. I think the name of the
software is 'Biped'.

I remember also that Tod Machover has a composition, featuring guitarist
David Starobin, in which the sound-production is directly related to the
mouvements of the two hands. The person wears special gloves with all kinds
of electronic sensitive interconnexions. The hands were develloped by the
STEIM Foundation in Amsterdam.

At your service,

--Wim Hoogewerf