Embodiment of Musical Performances through Emerging Technologies
The Team: Dr Thuong Hoang, Dr Greg Bowtell, Dr Jordan Vincent
Our project is basically looking at musical performances and trying to capture and convey the aliveness and physicalities of it.
We’re using a range of different technologies, including motion capture, heartbeat, heart rate sensor, eye tracking, thermal cameras hopefully. Essentially, we’re trying to get a holistic view of live musical performance through data capture.
We’re trying to get some sort of read on the emotional response of the actual performance. Then, the idea is to create a visualisation that represents the entirety of the performance as far as you can take it… as far as we can take it with the technology we have.
The Australian National Academy of Music was an industry partner that we had on a project we were already working on, so what the SSN scheme has allowed us to do is to formalise the work that we’ve been doing, and of course, a little bit of funding is always fantastic.
The Team: Co-investigators Dr Thuong Hoang, Dr Greg Bowtell and Dr Jordan Vincent (pictured)
A collaboration with Deakin Motion.Lab, School of Communication and Creative Arts (Faculty of Arts and Education), Deakin School of IT (Faculty of Science and the Built Environment) and Australian National Academy of Music