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Ofer Green's Music Tools

Help disabled musicians make music using an eye tracking system to generate MIDI signals.

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Ofer Green's Music Tools

Ofer Green's Music Tools

Ofer Green's Music Tools

Ofer Green's Music Tools

Ofer Green's Music Tools

Help disabled musicians make music using an eye tracking system to generate MIDI signals.

Help disabled musicians make music using an eye tracking system to generate MIDI signals.

Help disabled musicians make music using an eye tracking system to generate MIDI signals.

Help disabled musicians make music using an eye tracking system to generate MIDI signals.

Assaf Dar
Assaf Dar
Assaf Dar
Assaf Dar
1 Campaign |
Tel Aviv, Israel
$8,966 USD 185 backers
89% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Meet Ofer

Ofer Green is a talented composer of electronic music (you can hear some of his music in the video above, and also here).  His groovy Tech-House tracks make people dance in clubs - but Ofer himself can't move a muscle.  Ofer began his musical life as a drummer and a singer in his school's choir.  His future looked bright, but at the age of 14 he began losing control over his muscles, and a bit later over his voice.  This is how he found out that he was suffering from a rare condition called the Majado-Joseph disease: a cureless neurological disorder similar to ALS.

Clinging to music, clinging to life
Being the stubborn and passionate musician that he is, Ofer didn't give up on  music.  When he couldn't drum or sing anymore, he started creating his music using a computer.   He produced numerous dance tracks and remixes, and even got some of them signed in various US-based dance music labels.   But MJD is a cruel disease, and over the years his condition worsened.

Today, Ofer cannot use his hands even to control a mouse or turn a knob.  To communicate with the world he uses a sophisticated system that tracks his eye movement and converts it to mouse position on the computer screen.  However, that system is not sensitive enough for the fine tuning of knobs and sliders, which is crucial for the creation of electronic music.

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Gentlemen, we have the technology

We are a group of Ofer's friends, family and music teachers, and we want to create a set of software tools that will allow him, and other disabled musicians around the globe, to tune knobs and sliders, to play, record and create music.  This can be done by combining the existing gaze-tracking technology with the MIDI protocol, which controls music software.  In order to achieve this goal, we need a computer programer to sit with Ofer and design the tools that will make it easy to control the software.  Here you can see some sketches that we’ve drawn, with ideas for such interfaces:

          


The best things in life (should be) free

Once we design the tools we will open the code’s source so other disabled musicians can use it to create their music. We need your help to fund a good programer who will realize offer’s ideas and help him and countless musicians to create new music.


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The Works

$50 USD
* A CD packed with Ofer's music * A contributors credit on the software and our facebook page
Estimated Shipping
May 2015
44 out of 200 of claimed

Contributor credit

$10 USD
A thank-you and a contributor credit in the software and on our facebook page
59 claimed

Day Dreamin'

$20 USD
* A thank-you and a contributor credit in the software and on our facebook page * A direct link to download "Day Dreamin'" - Ofer's latest single, featured in the project's video
Estimated Shipping
December 2014
40 claimed

Getting Personal

$120 USD
* A signed CD with Ofer's music, with a personal dedication from Ofer. * A senior contributor credit on our website and software
Estimated Shipping
May 2015
8 out of 30 of claimed

High Five

$240 USD
* Five signed copies of Ofer's music * A senior contributor credit in the software and on our facebook page * A personal "High Five" video shoutout on our facebook page
Estimated Shipping
May 2015
3 out of 30 of claimed

Get into the frame

$600 USD
* A framed thank-you note from Ofer * A special video shoutout on our facebook page * Five signed CDs * Funder Credit on our website and software
Estimated Shipping
May 2015
1 out of 15 of claimed

You are an angel!

$2,000 USD
* A framed thank-you note from offer * A special video shoutout * Ten signed CDs * Angel credit on our website and software * A deep sense of meaning
Estimated Shipping
May 2015
1 out of 5 of claimed
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