The design of a bespoke musical interface designed to engage the public’s interest in wildlife sounds
by Andrew R. Brown
I liked that this project used smooth real-time mapping of human gesture data to synthesis the sound of wildlife calls. As seen in the P.L.A.C.E performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKgLrrI-MEU it forces the musician to move in unusual ways to produce sounds which makes the performance interesting to watch. I liked the idea of the inventor to design the Call as an a compact and inexpensive device design with minimal gestural dimensions in order to be suitable for use by the general public in community workshops or for infrequent personal interaction, thus sparking creativity.
The User Interface of the Opject seems simple enough to be easily learnable. For the hardwear design I like that it is a handheld objektiv and that the size was kept as compact as possible to minimize resource usage in production. As the software was built with an Arduino it still feels very much like a replicable project.
The gestural interface spoke to be as we already produced our own prototypes last semester with our phones using the sensors. So I could imagine myself being able to construct something like this someday.
links:
https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/uofmcznd/release/1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKgLrrI-MEU
