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Circular Rhythm Machine
Blob detection in Processing
Circular Rhythm Machine is a rhythm synthesizer that uses pieces captured by an RGB camera to make music.
To make beats, musicians place pieces on a mat, on rings, where each ring would correspond to a sound, like a high hat.
The camera picks up the location of the pieces, and if they are on one of the rings, the sound will trigger as the hand sweeps over the piece.
During set up, the camera image is adjusted for contrast, for optimal blob detection.
To make beats, musicians place pieces on a mat, on rings, where each ring would correspond to a sound, like a high hat.
One of the aesthetic proof of concepts I built involved inserting plastic pegs into slots at intervals, and when the sweeping hand passed over the pegs, the LEDs for that ring would like up.
Processing
Parsons School of Design MFA Design & Technology
Major Studio 1 Advisor: Harpreet Sareen
Created in Processing using its OpenCV library.