Hackathon2019--SwingBeat

Project Inspiration

• Original need from a SCU alumnus. Go Broncos!
• West Coast Swing is a largely improvisatory dance form, descendent of 50’s Lindy Hop
• Aspiring competitive West Coast Swing dancer who needs a little help finding the "1" at times.
• Dance movements often require knowledge of the specific beat count.
• To find the “1", that means we had to understand beat detection.
  
• Where is the 1,2,3,4 in music?
• We began an investigation of various algorithms in the context of our musical training and found a very complicated signal processing problem. It led to visualizations in virtual reality and a wearable solution.

Where is Swing Beat headed after the hackathon?

• Create and expand visualizations as works of art.
• Inspire others in making art of their own.
• Help people learn to dance better
• Continued research. Make improvements in real time beat detection algorithms and publish our results.
• Take dance platforms to market.

Note: repository not submitted with permission of hackathon organizers for future development and release

Built With

• audio-analysis
• c#
• json
• music-analysis
• oculus
• spotify
• unity
• virtual-reality
• visualization
• vr
• webapi