MozART

A novel interface for musical expression.

Developed at The University of Queensland

MozART is an interactive instrument which produces interesting sounds and visuals responding to touches and pushes on a large spandex canvas. The project was developed by 4 undergraduate students from the ITEE faculty in Semester 1 of 2016, and has been developed further in conjunction with the Touch Ensemble in Semester 2 to be included as a part of this performance.

Design & Development Team

Astrid Farmer

Astrid worked on the behind-the-scenes programming, everything from the initial Kinect depth and blob tracking to finally sending TUIO and MIDI data to the music and visuals. astridfarmer.com

Daniel Fraser

Daniel was instrumental in facilitating the construction of the project, co-ordinating with the Touch Ensemble, developing MozART's twitter bot, and working on the project's visuals. danielafraser.com

Melinda Piper

Melinda designed the interactive visuals, and worked with the MSAFluid library to achieve this. She further developed the visuals to be more engaging and reflective of human touches.

Naomi Mason

Naomi was responsible for incorporating the musical aspect with Ableton Live into the project, and worked to ensure it was predictable as an instrument and engaging for the audience.

Gallery

MozART Improvisations I from Stephen Viller on Vimeo.