Laptop Orchestra

Laptop Orchestra by Toshiba is basically "an interactive synaesthetic instrument, designed for performances of audio visual compositions in real time." Video from NextFest '06 after the jump.

The space conformation of the fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows, brings back to the formation of an orchestral group. On each one of them is installed a Software consisting in algorithms which activate sounds and abstract visual shapes based on color spectrum. Each laptop has its own sound and its own instructions for the construction of a shape. Interacting from the orchestra conductor podium, lightly touching metal stems, it is possible to activate or deactivate each single laptop , permitting the generation of an endless number of different compositions

Growth Interactive Audio Visual Installation

I have been thinking of making something like this for my project, either a remote that the user can make music with or make the user make sound and that turns into visuals.

Design for interactive media - UCLA D/MA

Input:
Develop an event/game which lasts 10 seconds. It must respond to data from the mouse or keyboard.

I like to have a look into interactive gaming with a live camera feed!

Here is the website for this game, try it!

Human Joysticks [NewsBreaker Live - interactive cinema game]

I would like to do something like this for my 3rd project, some kind of a game for the audience.

Beyond Interactive Cinema

"The movie, by sheer speeding up the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configuration and structure. The message of the movie medium is that of transition from linear connections to configurations."

Marshall McLuhan

This link is to an interesting article about Interactive Cinema

LOOP Live Cinema Trailer

live cinema: the erasers at synch 2006