Grainstick: A Collaborative, Interactive Sound Installation
Résumé
The interactive installation GrainStick was developed as a collaboration between the composer Pierre Jodlowski and the European project Sound And Music For Everyone Everyday Everywhere Everyway (SAME) at Ircam, Paris. The interaction design of GrainStick presents a new development in multimodal interfaces and multichannel sound by allowing users control of their auditory scene through gesture analysis performed on infrared camera motion tracking and accelerometer data. Spatial rendering was performed on a wavefield synthesis system; we discuss the advantages held by this technology in collaborative and interactive applications of this kind.