Biography
The GMS (Gestural Music Sequencer), written in Processing.org by Unearthed Music recording artist and AudioCookbook.org founder John Keston, analyzes video input and converts it into a sequence of musical information in real-time. The sound is reactive to the video stimulus. Musical phrases are determined by gestures or camera movement.
This second part to the piece "Chromatic Currents" uses video input from strings of lights inside a large glass vase. The GMS analyzes each frame and creates MIDI pitches based on the X coordinate and dynamics on the Y coordinates. Probability distributions are used to create unique scales and durations.
