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in general dot at the dance music EDM is like there's so much about the energy how do you take that energy and amplify it in a way that sort of translates what the person's feeling and what they trying to Express we're looking at a part of the music extech program which is our ongoing set of collaborations with music artists where we use our technology and really interesting and innovative ways so today we're here with Alison Wunderland and her team and we're revealing what their new stage show is gonna look like for the Fall Microsoft actually approached me about potentially working with me on visuals and I'm a big fan of what Microsoft does especially with artists and on the creative side so the way it works is if we got the Microsoft Kinect cameras so just like the video games it scans your body and you can interpret that to create graphics and so he placed two of these cameras one really close up front so we can see the facial expressions we can see the hands reaching out playing with the dials and really get up close with a DJ the one behind her is a bit further back so the in that case we can catch the whole body the Kinect is coming in with the depth cam and it's letting us instead of putting effects on top of a camera feet it's letting us literally change her into fire and so we have ten different effects it's really easy for the DJ to press buttons and activate all these cool visual effects inside the visual for the stage it's all touchscreen so you just press a few buttons you move a few sliders and the rest is moving automatically through the programming so we get a lot of performance power out of the surface yeah we were really impressed with the surface book because at first we expected to have to run all these visuals on a big powerful computer and we started testing on the surface book initially and it could handle anything we were throwing at it so yeah it's a it's a powerful little computer it's just like an another element to add to an experience of his show honestly I wanted a part of my brain to be out there for people to see and hear at the same time working with somebody like Alice in Wonderland in amazing part of our collaborative experiences where we were able to bring together connect and surface and her desire to really connect with the people coming to her show it's just a really good medium for 4 TDM and this type of this type of scenario you know you don't know what where shows are going to be in 10 years so so to be able to like be one of the people to say yes to something and develop something really early is super cool technology's always moving and I want to move with it you