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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00419
- Thesis Title
- Miró: a flexible expressive audiovisual system for real-time performance & composition
- Author
- Fernando Enrique Franco Lizarazo
- E-mail
- rugitus AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master of Science by Research
- Year
- 2004
- Number of Pages
- 139
- University
- University of Limerick
- Thesis Supervisor
- Dr. Niall J. L. Griffith
- Supervisor e-mail
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Department of Computer Science and Information Systems/Media Art
- Copyright Ownership
- University of Limerick
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.dropbox.com/s/gkmlquyti01h7oa/FrancoMscThesis.pdf
- Keywords
- Audiovisual, composition, performance, gesture, dynamic, representation, mapping, expressiveness.
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This thesis discusses various issues for designing a flexible expressive audiovisual system for real-time performance and composition, and proposes a design for an audiovisual performance system and discusses its implementation. I begin by reviewing the principal control metaphors in software-based audiovisual systems (AVS) and then propose a number of desirable factors for building an interactive AVS extracted from this review. I continue by evaluating various systems in terms of factors for building interactive audiovisual environments. The main issues for flexibility and expressiveness in the generation of dynamic sounds and images are then isolated. Finally, I present a description of the design and implementation of Miró, a real-time audiovisual system prototype based on sound and graphics synthesis controlled through a drawing device, where various ideas presented in this document have been implemented.