I recently met Tim at Burning Man 2014, and he had out there on the playa this damn music machine that I fell in love with immediately! The Space Palette! What Is It? The Space Palette is a musical and graphical instrument that lets you play music and paint visuals simultaneously by waving your hands in the holes of a wood frame. No pre-recorded media, sequences, or loops are used - everything is generated in realtime by your hands. The wood frame is a reference for the player, while the Microsoft Kinect is used to detect the position of whatever hands (or objects) appear in the holes of the frame. The depth of your hands matters as much as their left/right/up/down position - its like having multiple three-dimensional mouse pads in mid-air. Any number of hands can be used. Musically, the large holes are like piano keyboards (left-to-right) on which you play individual notes, and hand depth controls things like vibrato and filters. Visually, the large holes allow you to paint with graphical shapes (heavily processed by visual effects), and hand depth controls their size. The 12 small holes in the corners of the Space Palette are used to select different sets of sounds and graphics. Each of the 4 large holes plays a different sound and paints a different graphic, simultaneously. I thought it would be fun to meet up with him to talk about his invention, and play around with it for an extended amount of time. This is the results of my first attempts to play it with intention of making a song. For more information on the machine you can visit Tims website. nosuch/tjt/index.html For more of my thoughts on this thing, and my trip to go play it you can visit my blog. imustbedead/blog-3/ Audio version only kind of fun to listen after you figure out its controlled by hand movement. https://soundcloud/imustbedead/round-2-i-must-be-dead-on-tim-thompsons-space-palette
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:14:38 +0000
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