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Highlights from Opera Toolkit improvisation workshops at Eyebeam and Otion Front, August 2015.

Opera Toolkit is a collection of open-source audiovisual software modules and improvisational prompts for performance artists developed by Lisa Kori, Colin Self, and Gene Kogan during their residency at Eyebeam in Summer of 2015.

Filmed and edited by Sarah Riazati.

more info: archive.eyebeam.org/events/opera-toolkit

photos: operatoolkit.tumblr.com/

code: github.com/operatoolkit/OperaToolkit

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OperaToolkit workshop at Eyebeam, 8/21/2015

https://eyebeam.org/events/opera-toolkit

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Photos from the first OperaToolkit Workshop Session at OTION Front Studios. photographer: Sarah Riazati

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Our first public workshop will be this Thursday, August 13th at OTION Front, in Bushwick, Brooklyn!

Participants will have an opportunity to engage in and experiment with techniques such as projection mapping on dancers and performers, using live vocal effects, and different ways of connecting audiovisual materials such as: mapping movement to sound, mapping movement to visual effects, and mapping vocalizations to visual effects. There will also be an inquiry into how structured improvisation and performance prompts can spur the generation of performance content. We will use openFrameworks, Ableton Live, Processing, Max/MSP and pass data via MIDI and OSC. Though not a technical workshop, we will give a general overview our process.

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recent audiovisual experiment: connecting keypoint data with audio parameters in a MAX/msp patch

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Looper. looping station where OpenFrameworks frontend controls SuperCollider sound synthesis backend

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SuperDuper, generated with Hemesh library in Processing 

https://github.com/genekogan/generative-geometry

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optical flow tracking + witch thrash

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controlling ableton live from an openframeworks app