Making music with movement

Using similar methods to motion-capture for film (i.e.
goofy-looking white balls attached to clothing at various points) researchers at the University of Leeds school of music want to allow people to make music through gestures. IR light is reflected off the balls and twelve camera translate movement into notes. Some of the motivation behind this technique was certainly the terribly boring performances of most electronic music. No matter how much they bounce around, watching someone twiddling a lot of knobs isn't all that exciting, so we're actually mildly excited at the prospect of this since you could have performances where a dancer was also a musician (and we strongly resisted the temptation to make some sort of "modern" dance joke here, just for you).