OSC Virtual Controller

The number of artists who express themselves through music in an unconventional way is constantly growing. This trend strongly depends on the high diffusion of laptops, which proved to be powerful and flexible musical devices. However laptops still lack in flexible interface, specifically designed for music creation in live and studio performances. To resolve this issue many controllers have been developed, taking into account not only the performer’s needs and habits during music creation, but also the audience desire to visually understand how performer’s gestures are linked to the way music is made. According to the common need of adaptable visual interface to manipulate music, in this paper we present a custom tridimensional controller, based on Open Sound Control protocol and completely designed to work inside Virtual Reality: simple geometrical shapes can be created to directly control loop triggering and parameter modification, just using free hand interaction.

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