Dear musician/performer,

I’m pleased to invite you to a workshop on Realtime Gesture Recognition for Performing Arts.

The workshop will make you learn how to use a system called Gesture Follower, that allows for realtime gesture recognition to control sound or video in live performance.

After the workshop, you will get familiar with the followings:

- learning how to define your own gesture vocabulary

- understanding how to train yourself to get best result from the system

- using realtime gesture recognition as a tool to control audio and visual media

Although the system works with any device, Kinect and Wiimote will be used during the workshop.

Please refer to this page to see some works that used the Gesture Follower in the past.

Participants will be divided into groups of 3-4 people.

The workshop is divided into two sessions. The first session is a tutorial on how to use the system. During the second session, participants are invited to bring their own gesture and sound material to develop gesture recognition software for use in their own practice.

The first session of the workshop will last 2 hours and will take place possibly on the first half of August. The second one will take place during the last week of August, according to participants request. A doodle poll will be proposed in both cases.

Please, if you are interested contact me asap specifying your full name, university/centre, website, artistic field and your software environment (if you have any).

The workshop is free. Don’t hesitate to forward to whom it might concern.

Hope to see you soon,

Bruno