LSka

A Max For Live device to control any Ableton Live parameter moving hands and fingers in 3D space using the Leap Motion.

device is now based on Ircam’s leapmotion external

both Mac and Windows compatible (haven't still tested the Windows version, any feedback would be appreciated)


leap-modulation

Leap MoDULAtion

Stefano Scarani

Homeostasis is  an interactive installation for 2 people that share his heart’s beat and some hand manipulation to find the perfect harmony.

This project aims to compare the theoretical aspects of my Ph.D. investigation about relational behavior created in the interactivity environment, with the practical experience represented by Homeostasis interactive installation. 

In this theoretical framework we highlight certain aspects of particular relevance, related to the different types of relationships that are established between individual, device and community. 

Homeostasis logic system is completely based on Max 7, using 2 Pulse Sensor Amped via Arduino and 2 LeapMotion sensor to control de installation by 2 people at the same time.

homeostasis

Homeostasis

Chris Vik

Diffusion is a particle system driven granular synthesiser.

Diffusion uses Max 8's [mc] objects together with Jitter matrices to create a synthesiser that is controlled through the movement of particles through three-dimensional space. It uses both physics simulations and gestural input devices (such as the Leap Motion or VR HMD controllers) to give the user a "controlled-chaos" type approach to granular synthesis.

While the interface can be driven with a mouse, the three-dimensional nature of the interface is best explored with either the Oculus Rift or Vive HMDs. Binaural spatialisation is also active in VR mode for greater immersion.

Diffusion is a particle system driven granular synthesiser.
Diffusion uses Max 8's [mc] objects together with Jitter matrices to create a sy

diffusion-particle-system-granular-synthesiser-open-source

DIFFUSION: Particle System Granular Synthesiser (open source)

aconica

There`s one audio computer with Ableton Live + Max for Live, communicating with another machine which is responisble for LEDs, touchscreen and general room lighting. 

mendelssohn-museum-effektorium

Mendelssohn Museum Effektorium

Bejuco

A patch to use the Leap Motion controller inside Max/MSP with the help of Reach, an open source Leap Motion OSC Sender made by Niccolo Granieri and Jefferson Bledsoe. 

A patch to use the Leap Motion controller inside Max/MSP with the help of Reach, an open source Leap Motion OSC Sender made by Niccolo Grani

leap-motion-controller-patch

Leap Motion controller patch

uebergeek

PIGS is a software/hardware/percussive framework developed in Max/MSP/Jitter. It's designed for fluid, multi-layered, visual performance. It functions as a performable, improvisable, instrument; as a software framework for developing future instruments and performances; and as a testbed for working out performative concepts. PIGS focuses on experimentation with visuals that are not bound to traditions of rectangular frames and “movie” structures and on creating visual instruments designed as performable instruments rather than as controllable software. In its initial implementation, it enables a performer to perform visuals as they might perform a musical instrument; to be able to improvise; and to create fluid forms rather than rectangular, movie-like images.

Current PIGS performance interfaces include iPads, Leap Motion controller, and silent MIDI drums. Real-time gestures are drawn on the iPads and Leap Motion  and can then replayed with variations by striking the MIDI drums. The PIGS system allows for an assortment of variations from the original gesture in both duration and form with each drum stroke. The performer may also use this functionality to create theme and variations or looping structures. Individual drums/video layers may also be set to auto-loop, allowing the performer to improvise on the other drums/layers against the rhythms of the looping background layers.

While PIGS uses musical instruments and strategies as general models for thinking about performativity and temporal structures, care is taken not to attempt to simply translate musical approaches to visual ones: PIGS is designed from the ground up for visual performance. Rather than approaching audiovisual integration as a matter of synchronization of sound and image, the idea is to create an instrument that is performable as a part in a duet or ensemble (analogous to the way various instruments in an ensemble play different musical parts even though they are performing the same piece.) Likewise, while twentieth-century gesture and drawing-based abstract animators like Len Lye and Walter Ruttmann are progenitors, PIGS is interested in combining abstract drawing with live action, and in integrating contemporary visual influences from cell phone videos and YouTube to CGI, concert light shows and holographs.

The cultural zeitgeist is increasingly one of immediacy and unconstrained expression, while the zeitgeist of digital performance tools is often that of planning, control, and reserve. PIGS is designed for immediacy, to propose and facilitate a match between the ways we create cinema and the zeitgeist of the immediate. And although initially PIGS software is being performed traditional stage/screen concert settings, it’s intended to eventually expand into a variety of contexts.

"Rocket's Red Glare: Things Exploding on YouTube," an audiovisual improvisation by Amy Alexander (visuals (Max/Jitter), percussion) and Curt Miller (clarinet, computer audio (PD)) is the first composition developed using PIGS. 

The visual software is written entirely in Max/Jitter. There are four channels (layers) of visuals, each of which can be controlled by any of various gestural controllers. In slower parts of the performance gestures are drawn continually - in faster, more intense parts, MIDI drums are used to replay the gestures. (The gesture point data is replayed.) Each time a gesture is replayed, it is varied depending on velocity of the drum strokes, sonic spectral data, etc. The variations are spatial, temporal and textural: in other words, faster, more forceful playing might replay the gestures larger, faster, and with more opacity. The videos are both used as both textures on jit.gl.paths and as mattes behind them. A variety of video processing is performed on the videos to allow them to vary between more abstract and more recognizable: this allows us to work with the way videos are used culturally to aestheticize real-world events. Video processing is controlled both by parameters of the gesture/drum stroke and by manual adjustment (Launchpad Mini, Behringer BCR 2000, iPad/Mira.) 

PIGS software lead developer: Amy Alexander. Contributing developers: Wojciech Kosma, Curt Miller. Video Assistant: Doug Rosman.

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Percussive Image Gestural System (PIGS)

sandcobainer~

Gestural Music Interface to control MIDI events in Ableton using gestures. Previous leap motion interfaces only used limited gestures which were recognized by Leap Motion in box. (pinch and grab, pitch, yaw, roll). 
However, this project aimed to use actual machine learning  (SVMs) in real time to recognize and classify hand gestures to control music. The prediction is accurate and can be mapped to multiple parameters within Max.

Working with Max was supportive and helpful throughout the project. The ml-lib and ml.* externals are ideal for machine learning. There were a few 32 and 64 bit hiccups but that's because  my outdated Max 7  does not work with Ableton Live 10. 


Gestural Music Interface to control MIDI events in Ableton using gestures. Previous leap motion interfaces only used limited gestures which 

gestural-midi-interfaces

Gestural MIDI Interfaces

mirrorboy

This object outputs leapmotion's infrared stereo camera images.（Only for Mac OSX)

Before using this object, You should check "Allow Images" on Leap Motion control panel.

Developed by@mirrorboy - http://mirror.boy.jp


jit-leapmotion-infrared-stereo-camera

jit.leapmotion - infrared stereo camera.

jgastonraoul

Max is used to process Leap Motion hand skeleton data and to generate DMX frames controlling the moving head.

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