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Kaossilator, Quartz Composer, and Gainer Hacker’s Cafe 2008/02/17 d.hatena.ne.jp

First time, made in less than hour in Quartz Composer, using _0xtob’s DSMI (formerly called DSMIDI) interface. Fun times grab it here 3web.dkm.cz and don’t forget to visit tob… dsmidiwifi.tobw.net

I was pretty excited at seeing some of the new OpenCL examples pop up at Apple Developer Connection… this is one of them in action.

This is a better attempt at synching up quartz composer with the korg. I used some line visualizations in this one

A Beginner’s Tutorial on Lighting, Cubes and Audio Input to make an Interactive Toy in Quartz Composer. High-Quality video and step-by-step tutorial at vjkungfu.tv

This is an example of what you can do with a quartz composer clip running inside Processing. Cool huh?

Quartz Composer & iMovie

An image is lightly created such as poetry and music. Designer can make a motion graphics by this tool in real time. I want to make a work like a new surrealist of the new generation. Futurizmo Zugakousaku

A test in motion detection in Quartz Composer 3.0. The music is all generated in real-time by me waving my fingers, hands and arms around (or in fact any motion) in front of a standard web-cam. No post-processing was done on the audio or the video. The concept is by no means new, but still fun nevertheless – and I’m quite happy with this implementation. I’m using a very simple frame difference technique and generating midi notes based on where-ever there is movement (actually, as QC3 cannot send midi notes I had to send the data as OSC and use OSCulator to forward them as midi). I set up a few scales so only the notes in the chosen specific scale would trigger, and in this video I demo some: chromatic (all the notes on a piano), diminished (for a nice tense feeling), pentatonic (for a nice bluesy vibe), and Zirguleli Hicaz (a turkish scale which is by far my favorite – comes in around 1:33, if you get bored at the beginning skip to that bit). What I like about this example is that there is no special hardware or user configuration needed – its just a standard webcam looking at a standard me with no special clothing or anything. Anyone with a webcam can just load the software and start playing. Of course a more specific version (eg IR Camera filming someone wearing gloves with reflective finger tips) would definitely provide much more control, and I think I will try that someday too. More info and source code at memo.tv/webcam_piano

This is a small Demo of what the amazing Quartz Composer can do. If you didn’t already know, Quartz Composer comes on your Tiger and Leopard CD, and you can always download it for free from Apple as part of the Xcode tools. Hope you enjoy it, I’ll do something more interesting next time. As you can see, I was making it up as I was going, and I messed up a few times