more music made with webcam ..

[James R. Coplin]

Additionally, this seems *worse* for performance than the boring interfaces
already in existence.  I would much rather do this on my Schaltwerk, P3, or
any of the sets of pads I have laying around.  A breeze and his whole
controller goes away.  Whenever you reach in to move a step, a bunch of
other stuff gets triggered.  I see that the tech behind all this tracking
stuff is cool, but I'm not seeing anything that would actually help me make
music better.  

I'm still in the boat with Tony that what is needed is not more interfaces,
it's more musicianship.  It's easy to get a new wizbang, edgy interface.
It's much more difficult to actually sit down and spend the time with your
instrument and learn to play it.  Until people are willing to spend the
time, it's just a bunch of wank.  You can talk about the democratization
that digital has brought with the laptop, small studio etc.  All of these
are great.  However, it also means that many more people wanking and making
crap.  If you have an instrument you actually have to play, you either
wrestle with it give up.  Most of this other stuff and the tech means you
don't have to commit and make a choice.  You can wank and pat yourself on
the back.  Oh look at the pretty I made... Rubbish.

James R. Coplin

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Peter Korsten
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 7:27 AM
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: more music made with webcam ..
> 
> Jay Vaughan schreef:
> 
> > A use for dusty webcams worldwide.
> 
> Yes, that's true. But it seems to me that the onus is more about low
> cost and using what's there, than actually doing something new. Because
> in essence, it doesn't differ from the interfaces we've seen before.
> Instead of a mouse or a couple of buttons, we use a piece of paper and
> coins.
> 
> But what if we pointed the web cam at our faces, and use it for facial
> recognition? It's not at all easy, but my web cam comes with a piece of
> software that let's me replace my own face with a dinosaur. (Some might
> claim that's an actual improvement. :))
> 
> It figures out that you're moving your head and opening and closing
> your
> mouth. Now, suppose that the web cam could see that you have an evil
> grin, and as a result you would get jarring, dissonant chords whilst
> playing?
> 
> That would be something *really* new, and few things are as expressive
> as the human face.
> 
> Just a thought. Not that I want to ditch everything that is not
> super-sophisticated, but all the things I've seen so far score high on
> the gadget factor, or the cheapness factor, but to me they all lack a
> certain amount of imagination.
> 
> - Peter
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