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//Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using direct-drive turntables and a DJ mixer. The word turntablist was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer to manipulate sound. The new term coincided with a resurgence of the art of hiphop-style DJ-ing in the 1990s.
// Visual turntablism is a more recent phenomenon in which "visual turntablists", or "VJs", incorporate pictures, video, and computer generated effects into their live performances utilizing a separate video mixer in combination with their turntablist equipment. It can contain visuals without the audio being necessarily directly associated or synchronized. Since video mixing became incorporated into DJ hardware from Pioneer, and dj software such as Scratch Live, visual turtablism have moved from being a DJ with a "VJ", to being solely the DJ mixing music videos much the same way as music was mixed before.
I think that turntable is very useful tool for interactive media installation and performance. The sound change with the change of hand gestures. And I think that a turntable can offer to combine other instrument and kinect object and something. The turntable is not just an instrument for playing music, but creating it. I think that computer mouse is also a very useful tool for interactive design.
//Mouse In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows for fine control of a graphical user interface.
Because A mouse is used to control something in computer system. A mouse typically controls the motion of a pointer in two dimensions in a graphical user interface. The mouse turns movements of the hand backward and forward, left and right into equivalent electronic signals that in turn are used to move the pointer.
So I will make a simple media controller which is a combination of turntable and computer mouse.
