This is Duke Senior Clara Starkweather demonstrating one of her final projects for MUS 274S (Interactive Computer Music), taught by Scott Lindroth. In the class, students developed interactive motion-to-music systems using web cameras as well as the Kinect camera. They all wrote their own computer code using a software synthesis programming language called SuperCollider. They designed their own instruments and wrote algorithms that determined what those instruments played in response to movement detected by the cameras.
Clara's project uses the Kinect camera to fill out a musical setting of "Golden," a song by Jill Scott. Clara is a neurobiology major, a conservatory-level pianist, and an AB Duke Scholar. She is heading to Harvard next year to begin an MD-PhD program with the goal of becoming a neurosurgeon. (Robert Zimmerman)
Department of Music