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Musical Sonification of Avatar Physiologies, Virtual Flight and Gesture

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Sound, Music, and Motion (CMMR 2013)

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Virtual actors moving through interactive game-space environments create rich streams of data that serve as drivers for real-time musical sonification. The paradigms of avian flight, biologically-inspired kinesthetic motion and manually-controlled avatar skeletal mesh components through inverse kinematics are used in the musical performance work ECHO::Canyon to control real-time synthesis-based instruments within a multi-channel sound engine. This paper discusses gestural and control methodologies as well as specific mapping schemata used to link virtual actors with musical characteristics.

All environment and character modeling, custom animations and art direction for ECHO::Canyon were created by artist Chris Platz.

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    Robert Hamilton

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  1. CNRS - LMA, Marseille, France

    Mitsuko Aramaki

  2. Toulon-Var University and CNRS - LMA, Marseille, France

    Olivier Derrien

  3. CNRS - LMA, Marseille, France

    Richard Kronland-Martinet

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Hamilton, R. (2014). Musical Sonification of Avatar Physiologies, Virtual Flight and Gesture. In: Aramaki, M., Derrien, O., Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S. (eds) Sound, Music, and Motion. CMMR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8905. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12976-1_31

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