Project Description
The Organ is a new physical application for performing video in real time. The user plays a MIDI keyboard to control and explore video image loops projected on the screen above the keyboard. With each keystroke, a corresponding visual element appears on top of the last one played as a new layer. Just as with sound, each note is added to the complete harmony; in the video organ, each visual element is added to the previous ones, creating a new composition in which the elements blend into each other. Users do not construct their visual experience in a traditional timeline; instead, they do so in a more “musical,” harmonic way. The vibrating “ghost” of the previous visual elements remains, decaying slowly long after the key was struck. It is also a more private, intimate exploration of live video manipulation. It is not the “rave” event, the tribal experience of a VJ pulling his magic on a celebrating audience. The user is both the VJ and the audience.
The ‘Angel of History’ project has a stand-alone website.
plastic, wood, LCD projector, CPU, software, MIDI keyboard, video loops.
