title: melodic walk
type: interactive sonic environment - miniature composition using motion capture technologies
year: 2012
author/composer: Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos
funded / commissioned by MotionComposer GmbH
first performance - demonstration : Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, April 2012
This interactive composition was partly created at Bauhaus University in Weimar during the Motion-Composer Workshop and Symposium, coordinated by Robert Wechsler in 2012. The MotionComposer project gives people with a wide range of disabilities the opportunity to interact with music through movement. Melodic walk transforms with the help of motion tracking technologies the space into an interactive sonic environment. Miniature interactive compositions were developed which was then performed by 3 disabled participants in the workshop.
More info about the aesthetics and the technological aspects of the work can be found in the Journal paper My Content / My Space / My Music, Organised Sound Journal Vol18 (1) and in the in Motion Tracking and Arts for Persons with Motor Disabilities, book chapter in Assistive Technologies, Disability Informatics and Computer Access for Motor Limitations, IGI Global.