This document describes Suyash Joshi's interactive juggling and poi performance workshop that explores creating music through movement. The workshop aims to design physical music instruments using objects like juggling balls and poi through approaches that involve color tracking with a camera, sensors within the objects connected to an Arduino, and potential future work using machine learning to recognize gestures and generate audio. The workshop is intended to bring together jugglers, flow artists, and music instrument creators.

1. Interactive Juggling & Poi Performance
- Stanford CCRMA Summer 2020 Workshops
Suyash Joshi (suyash@suyashjoshi.com)
@suyashcjoshi
@techillusionist
Aug 4, 2020

2. Inspiration & Ideas
“What if I could create music as I
juggle /spin poi as if these objects
were some kind of music
instrument ?”
Vision & Motivation
• Dance Hack Day 2018
• Jugglers & Flow Artists
• Audio Visual Practices Workshop CCRMA
Workshop 2020
• Designing Physical Music Instruments
CCRMA Workshop 2020
• Music Instrument Creators/Inventors/
Hackers

3. Approach - Outside In
Camera - Color Tracking in MAX + Juggling Balls

4. MAX Demo
Big thanks to Constantin & Stephanie

5. Approach - Inside Out - DPI4M
Arduino + Circuit Playground (XYZ + MIDI+Speaker) + Poi

6. Approach - Inside Out v2 (WIP) - DPI4M
Arduino + Circuit Playground Bluefruit (BlueTooth) + iPhone App

7. Circuit Playground Demo

8. Thank you!
Future Work
ML Based Recognition of Gesture and Generation of Audio on Device
@suyashcjoshi