The Butt St Choir was a multi-touch Flash kiosk application deployed in the main headquarters of Host Sydney. Its purpose was to showcase the capabilities of our digital team whilst doing something special for the festive season. The Adobe Air app was projected onto a large screen built from scratch, accompanied with a projector, infrared camera and webcam for motion detection.
Users would simply approach the screen and touch it to commence the application. Music would start playing while each window, row by row, faded into the picture. Each window was labelled with a staff member's name. So, to hear that person sing in the choir, you simply touched their window to open it. Inside was a short video feed of that staff member humming their designated notes in the choir.
Consequently, touching the window again would seal it shut and thus mute the staff member until it was opened again. Each member of staff was synchronised with the backing track by coordinating their notes across each row using five core pitch levels: Alto 1, Alto 2, Bass, Soprano and Tenor.
Tech: Flash Player 10, ActionScript 3, UDP Sockets.
