[wah - go to video]

[distortion - go to video]

[changing amplifiers - go to video]

Face Control for Electric Guitar: I mapped the output of a real-time face-tracker onto the parameters of an audio effects processor. The result: an effects processor that uses face-position as its primary mode of control - the ultimate headbanger-guitar-player's interface.

This project also became an installation in the Collision 5 / Boston CyberArts Show at MIT.

• Face distance-from-the-camera mapped to the Wah effect (388K, MOV)
• Face-tilt mapped to level of amplifier distortion (442K, MOV)
• Gestural/conversational interaction (3.56M, MOV)

D. Merrill. Head-Tracking for Gestural and Continuous Control of Parameterized Audio Effects. Demo and short paper at the 2003 Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME'03). Montreal, Canada. 2003 [PDF].