The conference paper titled “Crossole: A Gestural Interface for Composition, Improvisation and Performance using Kinect” will be presented in NIME 2012, Ann Harbor, MI. You can also read the poster here. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an annual interdisciplinary conference discussing contemporary topics in electronic musical interface design, research and practice.
Meaning crossword of music, Crossole is a musical instrument where music is visualized as a set of virtual blocks that resemble a crossword puzzle. The performer controls music by manipulating the crossword blocks using hand movements. You can read more about the instrument here. Yo can also watch a performance of Crossole below:
A paper about Crossole, a virtual instrument developed by Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Anosh Daruwalla and myself have been accepted to NIME 2012. The conference will be held in University of Michigan between 21 and 23 May.
Meaning crossword of music, Crossole is a musical instrument where music is visualized as a set of virtual blocks that resemble a crossword puzzle. The performer controls music by manipulating the crossword blocks using hand movements. You can read more about the instrument here. Yo can also watch a performance of Crossole below:
Crossole, a virtual instrument developed by Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Anosh Daruwalla and myself have qualified to the final round of the Innovation Competition in the GTRIC conference. The finals will be held in Georgia Tech in February 6th.
Meaning crossword of music, Crossole is a musical instrument where music is visualized as a set of virtual blocks that resemble a crossword puzzle. The performer controls music by manipulating the crossword blocks using hand movements. You can read more about the instrument here.
In this Saturday, September 10th, Crossole, a virtual instrument developed by Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Anosh Daruwalla and myself will be showcased in Atlanta Maker Faire. Avinash Sastry will write the music, and perform the instrument.
Meaning crossword of music, Crossole is a musical instrument where music is visualized as a set of virtual blocks that resemble a crossword puzzle. The performer controls music by manipulating the crossword blocks using hand movements. You can read more about the instrument here.
Crossole is a musical meta-instrument by Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Anosh Daruwalla and myself. The word “Crossole” is a portmanteau of “crossword” and “so-lee (소리)” which, means sound in Korean. In Crossole, the chord progressions are visually presented as a set of virtual blocks. With the aid of the Kinect sensing technology, the performer can either build chords in the high level or step into the low level and control the arpeggiations of chords note by note. In the meantime, the performer has to play music by moving a gesture controlled cursor within the blocks. As more and more blocks are created, the visualization will eventually start to resemble a crossword puzzle.
Also, Crossole allows the performer to save a route. Once the recording is finished, Crossole replays the chords by traversing the recorded route in the background. In the meantime, the performer’s hand gestures are mapped to various processing algorithms to enhance the timbral scenery. Crossole allows the performer to think of chord progressions, arpeggiations, timings and timbre separately. Nonetheless, Crossole brings a challenging environment since the performer needs to make the musical decisions on-the-fly and coordinate his efforts between these elements.
Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Aaron Albin and I performed LOLC in the opening concert of NIME 2011, May 29th at Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Oslo, Norway. We got wonderful reaction from the audience. It was my last performance at GTCMT, but hopefully I will be able to perform with this bunch of misfits again… You can watch the performance below:
Aaron and I have also presented Beatscape in the conference. You can read the paper in here.
I will be live mixing A Reproduction in La Espiral Eterna in the KSU Festival of New Music on Monday, March 28th. The Festival is organized by Kennesaw State University. You can get more information about the festival in here.
A Reproduction of La Espira is a variation of the classical guitar piece, La Espiral Eterna, by Leo Brower; I have composed the piece in spring 2010. I’m very excited as it will be the first time that I will perform my own composition on stage.
I have been playing classical guitar since 2001. Between 2005 and 2009, I have studied in Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory half-time Classical Guitar Program. It’s a four-year certificate program teaching classical guitar, music theory and solfège, and the level is roughly equivalent to high school education. I had the opportunity to study with some of the best classical guitarists, such as İskender Özçelebi, Fatih Yazıcı, Soner Uluocak, Mary Akerman and Ahmet Kanneci.
Since 2005, I have been teaching classical guitar and regularly playing in concerts. I have a wide repertoire from baroque music to modern and Anatolian folk. I have also played pop music in small bands, making my own arrangements.
During my undergraduate studies in Middle East Technical University, I was also a member of Middle East Technical University Classical Society. In the society, I had played in numerous concert, had taught classical guitar from beginner to intermediate level. I was a board member between September 2005 and October 2007, and got involved in organizing two of the METU International Classical Guitar Festival, one of the most prestigious classical guitar events in Turkey.
Beatscape is a mixed virtual-physical environment for musical ensembles where sound objects interact with temporal waves to create rhythmic grooves. Musical outcomes in the virtual world are determined by the ensemble’s actions in the physical world. Part of the ensemble manipulates physical objects representing sounds while the other part triggers the sound objects by generating waves with hand gestures.
Me with Akito Van Troyer, Aaron Albin, Brian Blosser and Oliver Jan have built this instrument in Spring, 2010 as our Technology Ensemble project. By a camera, the system detects objects that are put on top a transparent glass table. Each object has a location, a pitch and they’re associated with different sounds. These objects are projected to a screen. However the objects cannot produce any sound by themselves. There are also waves that can be triggered by another player. The waves can be single, repetitive or continuous. Yet again, they too cannot produce any sound by themselves. It is the collision between the objects and the waves that produces the sound. The instrument requires an ensemble that needs active and effective collaboration with each other. We have written a paper about the instrument which appeared in NIME 2011.
The source code can be downloaded at Google Code under the name audio-sketch.
In LOLC, the musicians in the laptop orchestra use a live-coding language to create and share rhythmic motives based on a collection of recorded sounds. The language encourages musicians to share their code with each other, developing an improvisational conversation over time as material is looped, borrowed, and transformed.
I have performed three times in LOLC performances: the last performance took place in NIME 2011, Oslo, Norway. We have received wonderful comments about the music and the interaction.
