Media/Technology | Interactor

A simple but concrete example might go as follows: One of the MidiDancer sensors is attached to the elbow of a performer. Information about the position of the elbow is monitored continuously, with the value 0 representing a straight arm, 127 representing fully bent, 64 meaning halfway bent, etc. This information is converted to MIDI and sent to Interactor LPT, which uses that information to control the speed of a LaserDisc video player. Now the speed of the video is directly linked to the arm of the performer.

Interactor LPT allows you to change these relationships (performer -> media) on the fly, so that in one section of the piece the arm might control the LaserDisc while the same arm might determine the brightness of a light in a later section.




	Interactor LPT (continued)
	A simple but concrete example might go as follows: One of the MidiDancer sensors is attached to the elbow of a performer. Information about the position of the elbow is monitored continuously, with the value 0 representing a straight arm, 127 representing fully bent, 64 meaning halfway bent, etc. This information is converted to MIDI and sent to Interactor LPT, which uses that information to control the speed of a LaserDisc video player. Now the speed of the video is directly linked to the arm of the performer. Interactor LPT allows you to change these relationships (performer -> media) on the fly, so that in one section of the piece the arm might control the LaserDisc while the same arm might determine the brightness of a light in a later section.