Interactive Dance Music II

July 5, 2021

Aims & Overview # This post serves as background and technical explanation for the Interactive Dance Music II system submitted for a final year 40 credit Music Technology module. It will describe the aesthetic and technical ideals researched to build an interactive music system capable of analysing and reproducing sound-motion relationships, and the historical precedent for this practice. It will also delve into the motion capture techniques used to track movement, and the machine learning techniques which correlate separate gestures and physical patterns to the extracted sound features played simultaneously with the recorded movement, taking into account its temporal and acoustic properties and reproducing the learnt patterns via granular synthesis. ...