Wednesday, November 16
Setting up a way to move the ellipse as a spotlight that tracks the body using Kinect.
Referencing this Coding Train video featuring Lisa Jamhoury and this site.
Kinectron:
Skeleton (Tracked Bodies)
- Can track up to 6 bodies at a time
- 25 joints per body
- All bodies piled together in one JSON object
Under API “Accessing Individual Joints”:
Tuesday, November 17
Tested the Kinect with one ellipse that tracks my shoulder today. Today was also the first time I set up in room 220.
Blurry photo, but I think it captures the feeling of the space as it is now:
I learned a few things from today’s tests:
If I am to set up the projector and kinect at an angle, my movement up and downstage / stage left and right will result in an asymptotal movement of the ellipse.
The kinect is very responsive, but once it’s controlling a single ellipse rather than two and drawing all sorts of stuff on the screen, glitches in tracking become much more evident.
(The EMG sensor was not working here.)
I’m interested in how this looks, and I think it says something interesting in itself. But do I need it for this piece?
Friday, November 18 2021
I realized that much of what has developed so far is a coagulation, somehow, of much of what Mimi Yin referenced in the one office hours I went to.
I went back to office hours today -- Mimi asked me: “where do you want to take this?
My answer: A performance that plays with viewers’ perceptions and senses (sight and sound — both related to space. And smell — related to place). I don’t want to explain it, but I do want my trans ness & thoughts to be somewhat embedded… or for it to more explicitly frame the piece. Like how album art can contextualize and give meaning to ambient music. Later on I may want to make this a film or a different performance. But for now it is concretely a solo. That I am sure of.