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A persons dances inside a light show and XR demo

PROJECT NAME

City Maze

DATE

November 2017

MATERIALS

Optitrack, Unreal Engine, Ableton Live, OSC

CONTRIBUTORS

NYU Shanghai, The Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Tongji University

A persons dances inside a light show and XR demo

Details

Motion Dance and Visual Music Performance Art


For this collaboration, I directed and facilitated the Motion Capture broadcast for CityMaze. I also designed the custom tracking elements the dancers wore. I aided in the design of our realtime graphics as well.


City Maze is a new media motion, dance and computer music performance premiering at the opening of the 46th Annual International Computer Music Conference.


The multi-disciplinary team of students and faculty team behind City Maze set out with the goal of experimenting with a combination of as many technologies in simple, beautiful forms to strengthen the bond between audience, music, and motion with the overall theme of hearing the self.


City Maze uses a synthesis of optical motion tracked dance, state-of-the-art real time graphics, physics particle simulations, motion-controlled audio effects and processes millions of data points every second from an array of networked sensors. It is an evolution in a real time performance research system developed by a collective of artists, educators and students at NYU Shanghai, The Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Tongji University.


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