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The Summer Science Exhibition is a free six-day festival showcasing the science shaping our future and will be held at the Royal Society in London from July 1st, 2025 to July 6th, 2025.
The PhotoSYNTH is a mixed-reality audio synthesizer that uses real-time motion capture with facial-landmark tracking to enhance your movements, and the movements of your friends, with new musical superpowers, controlling aspects of each instrument and sound... Finally, a purpose for your reflection!
Developed from the ground up to be accessible and inclusive, with the support and feedback from Drake Music and hundreds of disabled and differently-abled people met through #DMLabs throughout the years.
By tracking your motions and emotions in real-time, this magic mirror converts your everyday movements into beautiful music - making it one of the easiest and most fun synthesizers to play, yet remains highly expressive and capable of high fidelity.
Rather than playing a musical instrument, the PhotoSYNTH plays you!
Without any training you can instantly make great music using movements familiar to you.
By using motion capture and augmented reality, the whole face is converted into a musical instrument where smiles are converted into musical notes, movements into melodies and facial expressions into audio filters and controls.
Every articulation is an audio revelation… Instant musical superpowers!
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Over 14 years, working directly with disabled artists and people with no musical abilities, DMLab has been researching ways to grant musical superpowers using technology.
A duet collaboration between the godfather of biometric music, Zenon Olenski and DMLab, Drake Music's legendary research and development team, and hundreds of disabled artists. The exhibition will feature a series of interactive installations and hands-on demonstrations.
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