The Ornaments

The Ornaments

Researchers Teemu Määttänen and Ilkka Niemeläinen have been working on the Vimma´s subproject entitled the Ornaments. It seeks to produce applications that capitalize on user-centred technology in order to combine visuals and sounds together in real-time.

The research work during spring 2014 has been executed in three parts: survey on the precedent works in visual music (such as the combination of colours and pitches), practical and thematic development work and framing the technology to be applied in the Ornaments. The work in applying sounds and visuals to the spatial logic included mostly programming that aimed e.g. at interactive processes between user and technology created by Leap Motion censor and methods that enable improvisation at the data system level. One of the main objectives of the Ornamentsis precisely to create tools for producing similar artefacts combining sounds and visuals. These artefacts can later be generalized and used in various (e.g. artistic and socio-ethical) contexts. The chosen programming environments applied in the project enable the mentioned low-level modular structure that can be generalized after the accomplishment of the Ornaments.

Ornaments – instrument prototype demo

Ornaments – instrument prototype demo from Teemu Määttänen on Vimeo.

 

Ornaments interaction tests

Ornaments interaction tests from Teemu Määttänen on Vimeo.

 

Ornaments – forms and interactions

Ornaments – forms and interaction – tests from Teemu Määttänen on Vimeo.