In this video I briefly explain and demonstrate how I used the Kinect to control the massive Melbourne Town Hall Organ. It contains a short excerpt from our performance “Carpe Zythum” November 2011.
I’ve created my own software Kinectar, which allows the use of the Kinect to control MIDI devices, ie. playing notes through simple gestures and motion. The Melbourne Town Hall Organ got a referb in the late 90s adding the ability of MIDI messages to active the notes… this happened.
The company that provided the control system to allow the organ to be played via MIDI are Solid State Organ System.
Co-composition and Kinect performance and programming by Chris Vik
Co-composition, lyrics and vocals by Elise Richards
Video produced by Unkle Nicnac Films
Full performance out next week!
This is very interesting. It would be very efficient and artistically better to use it with a “perfect control” of the classical organ using of the “NovelOrg Key Action System”.