interFaces: Instruments for Computational Art and Music

Keywords: Hardware, Instrument-Making, Arduino, Electronic Music, Extended Reality

Description: A series of explorations around digital and physical instrument-making.

A negotiation between function vs. form

what sensations should an interface elicit?

how to design ‘transparent’ interfaces? (No obfuscation)

what is the balance between exploration and practicality?

what does it mean to interface?

Sweet Touch: Low-Frequency Multitouch OSC Controller

A mobile multitouch application inspired by Iannis Xenakis' dream of composing music through the act of drawing. Sweet Touch is an accessible Open Sound Control sender that can be connected to any OSC receiver - always emitting a haptic response that modulates based on the position of the initial finger.

Made with JUCE (C++)

Ritual: Coffee-Making for Composition

Electroacoustic piece and instrument created in collaboration with Japanese composer Aya Yuasa and performed by Splice trumpeter Sam Wells. It explores the gestures behind pouring a cup of coffee - by triggering samples through an ultrasonic sensor.

Made with Arduino and Max MSP

Lines&Dots: Touchpad Instrument

Touchpad instrument that promotes the exploration of additive synthesis through the act of connecting points on a plane.

Made with p5.js

Multicolor Noise: Touchpad Instrument

Touchpad instrument that promotes the exploration of feedback and noise through flow fields.

Made with p5.js

SAMPLE(V)R: Drum-Like Virtual Reality Instrument

Simple Sampler in Virtual Reality - playing with delay values through Unity’s physics engine.

Made with Unity

V(R)ALIS: Word-Based Sound Objects

Modulating sound objects through collisions in “zero-gravity” - an entire chapter of the novel VALIS (Philip K. Dick) in VR.

Made with Unity

Rope Pulling: Controller for Ableton Live

A MIDI Controller designed to create expressive timbres through the gesture of pulling an invincible rope.