Marcella Mandanici

Disembodied voices is an interactive environment designed for an expressive, gesture-based musical performance. The motion sensor Kinect, placed in front of the performer, provides the computer with the 3D space coordinates of the two hands. The application is designed according to the metaphor of the choir director: the performer, through gestures, is able to run a score and to produce a real-time expressive interpretation. The software interprets the gestural data and controls articulated events to be sung and expressively performed by a virtual choir. Hence the name of the application: you follow the conductor's gestures, hear the voices but don't see any singer. The system also provides a display of motion data, a visualization of the part of the score performed at that time, and a representation of the musical result processed by the compositional algorithm.