{"id":168,"date":"2013-02-12T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/gestrument-shaping-music-with-kinect-touch-and-acoustic-ensembles-videos\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:56:00","slug":"gestrument-shaping-music-with-kinect-touch-and-acoustic-ensembles-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/gestrument-shaping-music-with-kinect-touch-and-acoustic-ensembles-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestrument, Shaping Music with Kinect, Touch, and Acoustic Ensembles [Videos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This looks pretty amazing. -egg]
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Gestrument, Shaping Music with Kinect, Touch, and Acoustic Ensembles [Videos]<\/a>:
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Swiping through clouds of timbre and melody, using Gestrument is an experience of a different musical animal. Jesper Nordin<\/a> and Kymatica<\/a> \/ Jonatan Liljedahl created the iPad version, available now for ten bucks. But it\u2019s worth looking at that side by side with Gestrument for Kinect, as the same metaphors can translate across input methods. Both employ a kind of meta-composition \u2013 instrument as conductor of musical structures, more than an object for exclusively solo expression.
What\u2019s especially nice is hearing these digital, synthesized environments meld with acoustic instruments. The solution may not convince everyone yet, but there\u2019s clearly potential for these digital instruments to join up with conventional chamber ensembles and acoustic instruments. (See the video below, a live concert with Trio Trespassing<\/a>. Christophe Lebreton from GRAME in Lyon, France contributed to the development.)
And at the very least, Jesper Nordin\u2019s development work and compositional experiments have earned him attention; the City of Stockholm has even recognized the app.
First, the iOS app:<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a performance of the Kinect version, combined with an ensemble. (I\u2019m curious, readers: sold one one more than the other? Neither?)<\/p>\n

All reviews can be read on our Facebook page –<\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/gestrument
Feature set of the iOS app include various options for control, sharing and collaboration, and support for file import\/export, AudioCopy, MIDI, and now AudioBus:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Play and compose music with the swipe of your finger<\/p>\n

\u2022 Generate music within defined scales and rhythms<\/p>\n

\u2022 Improvise freely within a fully controlled musical framework<\/p>\n

\u2022 Use the internal GM sound bank or your favorite MIDI synthesizer, or load your own sf2 soundfonts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Use Gestrument to control other iOS apps or external MIDI programs through a MIDI interface ([Apple] Core MIDI enabled) or Network MIDI<\/p>\n

\u2022 Virtual MIDI with MIDI clock in and out lets you sync with sequencers and DAWs<\/p>\n

\u2022 Create and save your own presets and share with your friends or download new presets from www.gestrument.com<\/p>\n

\u2022 Record what you play to audio and MIDI file<\/p>\n

\u2022 Export recordings to AudioShare \u2013 audio document manager<\/p>\n

\u2022 Copy recordings with AudioCopy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Play back previous recordings, optionally looping<\/p>\n

\u2022 Use Gestrument as a source synth in Audiobus<\/p>\n

\u2022 Allow mixing with other apps, for example play a track in the<\/p>\n

Music app and play along with it in Gestrument. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea is, you surf around scales and rhythms that are pre-mapped to the layout. Korg\u2019s Kaossilator popularized some of these sorts of ideas in hardware; here, you have various other ways of setting up those kinds of layouts. The idea isn\u2019t new: the traditional Autoharp has long allowed folk musicians easy access to harmonies simply by strumming. (Frets are a more complex solution to the same idea.)
You are a bit restricted in sound set, but with MIDI out, there\u2019s room for growth.
More on the app:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gestrument.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This looks pretty amazing. -egg]\u00a0– –Gestrument, Shaping Music with Kinect, Touch, and Acoustic Ensembles [Videos]: Swiping through clouds of timbre and melody, using Gestrument is an experience of a different musical animal. Jesper Nordin and Kymatica \/ Jonatan Liljedahl created the iPad version, available now for ten bucks. But it\u2019s worth looking at that side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-2I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}