I've put alot of thought into this, it seems other people have as well. If you look up things like "wearable computing" and that dude from the "cyberman" documentary you can get a good idea of what I am imagining. Something like replacing the computer monitor with a pair of those neat glasses which allow a person to see the crowd and also see a compter interface at the same time(with some different software which fits the devices better). Then you would replace your mouse/midi controls with some motion capture gloves or something. There is a company selling these motion capture midi controllers which are these crazy robot looking things you wear on your arms to control music, the web page has a tesimonial from some people using it for trancy/proggy sounds. There are a bunch of these cyborgs experimenting with music performance, alot of dancers wear these suits to control sounds, I think they are called gypsy suits or something.

Anyway, with people always complaining that laptop dj's look like they are checkng their email or something, I imagine having a person stand in front of the crowd and control music with the gestures of their bodies would be much more entertaining, you could say, trigger nasty bass notes with pelvic thrusts, a crowd would get a kick out of that, maybe even on the same level as watching a person manipulate turntables.

Another idea I had would be to have that display render instruments in kinda a 3d space, and use the motion capture gloves to play them, so you could have like a guitar rendered in front of you and play air guitar with those gloves and it actually make a sound, maybe with some DSP that manipulates the guitar model in physically impossible ways, but something like that would be hard without tactile feedback.

It would be alot of fun to do music and virtual reality together like this, maybe the crowd could wear some gizmo's too that would augment their reality for a fun party experience. It would take alot of practice and hacking to make a good system for all of those things though, but it is still very possible I think, so I practice my music for now, and hope to gradually move towards something to that effect, even if its just some ameteur low quality thing.

The music is odd, some of it is this netlable stuff, some of it is this academic and experimental stuff, a little PvD, Ianis Xenakis, samples of Douglas Engalbart's presentations (he invented the mouse and the computer desktop interface), lotsa fun with PD, csound, and weird music devices, maybe one day it will all come together, but at the moment it is just a huge mess of computer gizmos and unpleseant noises.

Last edited by Zombie0915 on Jun-04-2006 at 19:20