Interactive Youth

Live Face Projection Mapping with Kat Von D

Projection mapping performance put together by Wildbytes features string quartet and model - full performance in video embedded below:

First-ever real-time face tracking and projection mapping performed at a live event, on stage. ALL images recorded live, No post-production added.

A live / real-time face projection mapping event where 3D rendered images were projected over Kat Von D’s face, following accurately her movements. Custom software and a high-end tracking system were used to track her body movements and adapt the projection content in real-time to her torso, neck and face. Original music composition played live by a string quartet.

Automatic Sample Layout

Coding experiment from Kyle McDonald arranging samples for music production in a unique way using machine learning:

I’ve been thinking about new ways of making music and working with sound. I’m especially excited about machine learning augmenting our selection of sounds, analyzing and decomposing existing recordings, and making automatic suggestions for compositions.

This shows around 30k “drum samples” from a few different sample packs, organized in 2d (position) and 3d (color). All sounds are less than 4 seconds long, but I only analyze and play the first second while scrolling through. I used librosa to extract the constant-q transform of each sound with 84 bins and 11 time steps. I used t-SNE with perplexity 100 to layout the sounds from those 924 dimensional vectors.

Human Error