Outline of my ET project as a PDAR project

To create a performance tool that enables kinetic control of music through juggling.

For this prototype, both the sounds controlled and the control method were fairly simple, leaving a lot of depth for development into other technologies, and more involved composition.

I’m generally quite happy with the outcome of this project. I feel that it forms a solid piece of work which is both aesthetically and technologically interesting. I would be interested in continuing to develop the project into my third year, expanding it to not only include algorithmic selection elements, but also other alternative methods of controlling music through movement. These could be other juggling based methods, or otherwise. I think other methods of tracking would also be worth exploring, as well as a much more thorough look at the ways music can be affected. I would also like to relate these methods to more beat driven music, which will be harder to pull off convincingly, but necessary, I feel, to be able to break into a more mainstream market.