V Motion Project

The first project that I researched was the V Motion Project, a dual-Kinect interface that maps the musician's movements to MIDI samples in Ableton Live to create motion-based music. The interesting part of this project to me is how the team was able to condense the different aspects of music production down enough to operate them with simple gestures such as extending your hand or crouching. One of the problems with the piece, which is one they address in their documentation, is the fact that it is difficult to determine that the music is actually being created by the musician's movements and is not simply background noise to flashy movements. The documentation makes this obvious, but from just the performance it is hard to tell. Changes to the visual interface that the musician uses would perhaps make this more apparent to the audience while watching.