<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Boris<div><br></div><div>I am planning to use that board for Neural Network computing, I already did some applications for something totally different than music, and it worked accurately. </div><div><br></div><div>But while I was coding that project, it dawned on me that the Neural Network adaptive learning can learn from a performer's actions e.g. hitting keys or drums or motions of the limbs and so on. </div><div><br></div><div>Then the performer can train the Neural Network to play along in an orchestrated manner via examples of short performances. </div><div><br></div><div>If so the problem was: on what platform to run the Neural Network computations? And we researched the recent releases of the hardware and at 1.5 billion instructions per second + vector floating point accelerator at $90 price range this board was ideal.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I am not a performer, so I have no sample learning examples. </div><div><br></div><div>But if you could find some, e.g. </div><div><br></div><div>Input:{finger1, finger2, finger3, finger4, finger5} -----> Output:{some midi sequence} </div><div><br></div><div>finger to mean the location or pressure or twist or ...</div><div><br></div><div>I can then build a smaller learning program, which will be fully trainable for multiple performances and instruments. </div><div><br></div><div>Since the beagleboard is inexpensive you can attach one to every performer, you get the point....</div><div><br></div><div>Dara</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 2012-04-02, at 11:30 PM, Boris Klompus wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Dara,<div><br></div><div>Awesome. Thanks for the link. Haven't seen this before. Being able to run a few sound shaping programs on such a small and discrete board sounds exciting and promising! </div><div><br></div>
<div>Boris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Dara Shayda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dara1339@hotmail.com">dara1339@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello Boris<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the link.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggest to some of our genius musicians here to look at this board as well:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://beagleboard.org/bone" target="_blank">http://beagleboard.org/bone</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>This one runs UNIX and all the necessary software that is needed to make serious applications. Again the knwoledge of hardware engineering is kept to minimal. </div><div><br></div><div>I think this board and Arduino can revolutionize the live-performance systems for innovative musicians in all genre.</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dara</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div>On 2012-04-01, at 11:19 PM, Boris Klompus wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Toni Dove uses a similar tool, minus the lasers,
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T60KFho8d_A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T60KFho8d_A</a>. It doesn't go too in depth, but it's a harp-like-shaped instrument, that has infrared sensors. There are enough IR sensors to get a read on both the X and Y position of her hands inside of the harp. This allows her to scrub through video. <div>
<br></div><div>A bit of logic coded into an arduino microcontroller, to parse through the raw data that the sensors provide, and then a whole lot more logic in a max/msp patch to interface that data with what needs to be controlled can build something along the same lines. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Boris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Dara Shayda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dara1339@hotmail.com" target="_blank">dara1339@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">An actual performance<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=WkkhcwXpYy4&feature=fvwp" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=WkkhcwXpYy4&feature=fvwp</a><div>
<div><br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 2012-04-01, at 6:45 PM, Dara Shayda wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>A while back we had a chat about turning bodily motion into music and I saw this on Arduino board:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yta0aJrbOxU&feature=channel" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yta0aJrbOxU&feature=channel</a> <br><br><a href="http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/laser-harp-2009/" target="_blank">http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/laser-harp-2009/</a> <br>
<br>It can be made for about $300 or so, and I think it might serve as a good entry for some of the performs here hampered by the expensive systems that detect hand and body motion. <br><br>Those of you with limited electronics education should know that the learning curve to use Arduino is not that steep. <br>
<br>Of course many varieties of this system can be made for more elaborate dance pieces and other such performances. <br><br>Dara<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br><a href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org" target="_blank">microsound@microsound.org</a><br>
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