Visual DJing

Disc jockeys (DJs) select and play pre-recorded music for many different audiences. However, most professional DJs do much more than just playing music. They are also responsible for mixing tunes, forming beats and creating the right ambience for the audience with their music choice, whether playing in a club, at a private function or on the radio.

I thought it would be great if the DJs can create some kind of visual art while they are doing sound performance, since the visual art can also create ambience for the audiene. 

Precedents

Rscover

The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science--the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world. Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes. . .What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material--with him rhyming!" Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes.

American DJ Galaxian 3D

American DJ has taken the popular Galaxian effect to a whole new dimension of excitement! The exciting Galaxian 3D features green beams that rotate back and forth creating amazing aerial effects on a ceiling or projected onto a crowd.

DJ and lighting at Guitar center: Big lighting installments are moving like equializer by the sound create by DJ, which could be any users

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Prototype sketch

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My first goal is to have a simple images that detect the finger motion by the camera in my computer.

Current Hardware:
Camera in Macbook pro
Processing as a coding program

Current thoughts are to use a camera that is built in my macbook pro and processing as a coding program.

I have not figured out the "something"  big piece.