Real Time Depth Tracking

Live Show Visuals

We spent a lot of time in a basement room at Aalborg University developing live visuals with Kinect point-cloud data, exploring how visuals could support audience “flow” during a concert. A big part of the project was talking to artists and running expert interviews, which helped us shape a clear set of design requirements and the hypothesis that musician-driven, real-time visuals would make a noticeable difference.

I handled the Kinect data in TouchDesigner and built an interactive control panel so I could shape the visuals live. I also created hand-drawn 2D GIFs as alternative layers, and one of those designs ended up becoming the album cover for Lady’s “Dirty Roses.”

For the final evaluation, my co-writer Abderrahman Mhadden and I staged a concert at Basement in Copenhagen, where the system worked beautifully. Building interactive concert visuals adds emotion, depth, and a sense of presence, and it’s genuinely fun to perform. The project was mainly developed in TouchDesigner, with projector and light integration.

Role : Research, Dev, Interviewer, Data analyst, Animator

Tools : Kinect, Touchdesigner, Adobe

Keywords : Interaction, Real-time visuals

Period : Jan-Jun '23 - Master Thesis