Bachelorprojekt SoSe21

Manifesto

Manifesto is an interactive installation that is designed and developed in a way that the camera-based motion sensors act as the starting point of a complex pipeline consisting of multiple interfaces. The activity of the event participants is monitored, analyzed and subsequently translated into sounds produced by an organ. The project is to be presented and executed simultaneously in multiple locations statewide and is dedicated to the victims of the National Socialist Underground murders. The main event is to take place in the St Martin’s Church in Kassel.

Manifesto was part of the No closure! project.

https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/en/programmes_projects/theatre_and_movement/detail/no_closure.html

Concept

The Marc Sinan Company shared the main idea with us: how the inner room of a church should be turned into an interactive area where one has to work together with the others; the event should act as a memorial to the victims of the National Socialist Underground murders.

The concept is the project foundation and was developed in collaboration and coordination with the Marc Sinan Company. An important point here was dividing the whole act into substeps to define the possible states of it. The starting point of the interaction is the whole floor area with a smaller area within it acting as the playground.

We developed multiple concepts, discussed and modified them to reach the final idea:

  • The act is divided into 4 different phases
  • There are at least 2 areas that are part of the interaction: (1) Interaction area (2) Target area.
  • At least one person is needed for the interaction.

Those are the four phased of the interaction:

Chaos
Awakening
Order
Silence

Pipeline

The implementation of the technical pipeline is divided into three parts: The Manifesto-Core, the Server and the Frontend.

The application captures the webcam stream and tries to detect human movement using OpenCV and Python and convert the movement to coordinates within the picture. Is the movement within the designated area the coordinates will be send to the Manifesto Server, a Kafka-based data broker.

On the Manifesto Frontend the plugin for Ableton LIVE subscripes to the data broker and on receiving the coordinates translate them into MIDI-commands to create sounds with the church organ.

Team

  • Elyess Eleuch
  • Dennis Bröcker
  • Martin Staats
  • Nils Rausch
  • Stepan Burlachenko

Betreuung

Prof. Dr. Regina Friess und Alexander Kramer, in collaboration with Marc Sinan Company

Link

https://showtime.f4.htw-berlin.de/ss21/bachelor/b4-manifesto

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