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This video demonstrates the mapping of skeletal data using an Xbox Kinect, Synapse, and Pure Data, within a developing live performance system. The kinect data controls in-kind spatial flocking behaviors of the ‘boids’ algorithm.

Mapping Strategies for Embodied Metaphors – Improvised Musical Examples

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This video demonstrates developmental spatial music mapping strategies, which exploit embodied music metaphors (see Johnson 2007).