scoreLight

”scoreLight” is a playful musical instrument capable of generating sound from the lines of doodles as well as edges of threedimensional objects nearby (hands, dancer’s silhouette, architectural details, etc - Fig.1). There is no camera nor projector: a laser spot explores the shape as a pick-up head would search for sound over the surface of a vinyl record - with the significant difference that the groove is generated by the contours of the drawing itself. The light beam follows these countours in the very same way a blind person uses a white cane to stick to a guidance route on the street. Sound is produced and modulated according to the curvature of the lines, their inclination as well as their color and texture. This means that ”scoreLight” implements gesture, shape and colorto-sound artificial synesthesia [2,5]; abrupt changes in the direction of the lines trigger discrete sounds (percussion, glitches), thus creating a rhythmic base (the length of a closed path determi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SIGGRAPH
• Authors: Álvaro Cassinelli, Yusaku Kuribara, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Daito Manabe
• Keywords: Colorto-sound Artificial Synesthesia, Computer Graphics, Laser Spot, Playful Musical Instrument, SIGGRAPH 2009