...or allowing the movement of people in bars form an interface to
coding. That would be quite fun short project actually --- time lapse
shots of people walking through sidewalks, inside bars, or through
train stations... and using that as input to simple programming
structures... or to video editing, for instance. ;)
We just need to put antennas in people's heads (err... or just get
them to download a simple GPS app that sends us pings... use tower
switching or GPS... like cellphabet).
On Jan 6, 2008 12:53 AM, AlgoMantra <algomantra_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just to add to this a little bit - I think I'm not completely off track
> > in saying that computer music is sometimes criticised for being too
> > cerebral. I think this can largely be blamed on the input method. None
> > of this is particularly new, I think Eno was saying this ten years ago,
> > "bring the muscles back to music" or something. Well maybe, ironically,
> > livecoding makes it possible to use a computer as a computer (rather
> > than a synthesiser in a different shaped box) and bring to a physical
> > level with a suitable language and hardware?
> >
>
> The most obvious muscle oriented input method I know of is kung-fu
> with motion capture and gesture recognition. So essentially, instead of
> the user's finger dancing on the keyboard, it is he or she who dances
> to input commands/data/code.
>
> I have been toying with some other ideas - like using the GPS
> trace of a cellphone adrift in a city. So in this case the walk of
> a human being, his pattern of drifting becomes a way of slow
> introspection and computing at the same time. In the case of the
> Cellphabet project I used cell-tower ID tracing rather than GPS:
>
>
> http://algomantra.blogspot.com/2007/07/cellphabet-10-how-i-can-walk-in-english.html
>
> This can be used to produce music with a little ingenuity, and
> lets say - 20 people walking the score.
>
> I also think that the act of coding need not be so solitary and
> confined. Perhaps an interface of the future would actually attempt
> to intersperse the coding life with life outdoors - at the sidewalks!
>
>
>
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