Change of mind

Change of mind and Project Realisation…

Initially I was planning on furthering design and improving on my ‘Interactive Guitar’ project from earlier. After discovering Leap Motion I was inspired to include this in some way.

Trying different placements (middle pickup position, lower pick guard etc.) for the Leap Motion I soon realised that none of them would really work in a meaningful way. One of the main ideas I wanted to explore with this new project was having an installation type design that could be interacted with by anybody of any age and skill level. This was a limitation of my earlier Interactive Guitar project, seeing as it was a more of watch a performance style display, I would encourage people to come and try it for themselves but due to it being a left handed guitar I felt this was another barrier in the way of being and interactive installation.

My plan currently is to have a microphone setup in the middle of a room with a table down in front of it that has a leap motion placed on top. The idea is to have someone be able to speak into the mic whilst they manipulate and morph the sound of it by using hand movements and gestures using the leap motion. For example left hand height will dictate the pitch your voice is played back at whilst the tilt of your right hand could be some ring modulation etc. There will be many different effects associated to produce a very interesting sound that will keep people interested and amused.

Im still getting ideas for visuals/lighting that could accompany this installation, this are a couple of videos I have been looking at this week:

Cool Light Installation 

Another cool one

Arduino Light Show