Today´s article shows how a group of students from Cornell University, created a hardware-software set of tools to develop and composed your own music, the Audio Composer and Conducting Suite (A.C.C.S).
This virtual conducting environment platform is capable of inputting the compositions from a video camera and a keyboard or a conductor waving his/her hands at the same time the music is playing on the background in real time. This way you can know pretty soon if you are the right fit for the composition world (This is if you don´t start to feel pain in your ears when hearing your own music).
All this is possible thanks to the brain of the system, composed of two Altera FPGA´s. One is responsible for filtering the video signals and capturing the movements of the hands. The other FPGA is in charge of the musical notation. Both running in parallel.
The only drawback (there is always something…) of this project is that you need to wear a special kind of gloves…
Read the full article to find out more and be more serious about feeling like Barenboim, or not!
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.