The German electronic duo Sissi Rada has released its latest music video — and the haunting visual experience is brought to you entirely by Microsoft Kinect.
Produced by the creative animation studio Schnellebuntebilder, the video for the Sissi Rada song "Sunday" was shot entirely with the use of the Xbox One motion-sensing input device and tracker, which was originally developed for gaming-, Skyping- and music-related activities, according to the company's site. Featured in the video are the members of the Berlin-based band in pixelated form, playing "instruments" like donuts and ping-pong paddles and occasionally, spontaneously dispersing into what could be millions of computer-based dots and motes. Unlike most of its past work, which tends to be more conceptual, Schnellebuntebilder decided to take a story-driven approach for the music video.
"This time we tried to combine generative elements with dreamy 3D illustrations of the lyrics," the studio said in an interview with Dezeen.
To make the video, the studio took more than 40 takes of the band with the Kinect playing "Sunday," and then edited it by transmuting the footage into the live multipurpose toolkit VVVV.
As the Verge pointed out, Schnellebuntebilder isn't the first to use a depth-sensing camera for a hybrid tech-art aesthetic: filmmaker Timo Arnall came out with a video collection that attempts to reenact what computers "see" back in 2012.
Check out the haunting, ethereal music video made entirely with the help of Microsoft Kinect in the clip below.
Via: The Verge
