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Post by chriscank on Mar 23, 2006 20:43:36 GMT -5
M A T R I X Multipurpose Array of Tactile Rods for Interactive eXpression The MATRIX is a new musical instrument that gives users a 3-dimensional tactile interface to control sound with their hand(s). It can be used as either a stand alone instrument or in conjunction with a traditional musical keyboard or microphone. The MATRIX generates musical output by mapping a performer's expressive gestures to a variety of sonic parameters. It acts as an input device that directly manipulates the parameters of a synthesis engine (eg. additive, granular, wave-terrain...), or an effect alogrithm (eg. delay, reverb, filter-banks...) in response to the changing shape of the interactive surface. In this way, the MATRIX provides a very intuitive method of manipulating sound with an amount of control that has never before been implemented in real-time. One mapping uses the individual rods of the MATRIX to directly control the digital waveform of a sound, thereby "sonically sculpting" the timbre of the sound. An example of this technique is shown below in the excerpt from one of my compositions titled Dactylonomy. It is a duet for MIDI keyboard and MATRIX, and utilizes a custom synthesis technique that is actually a cross between Wave-terrain and Scanned synthesis (see "New Musical Mappings for the MATRIX" for more information). The video below shows the last 1:30 of the piece, which premiered August 17th, 2002 at the Woodstockhausen Electronic Music Festival in Santa Cruz, California. www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/matrix/DactylonomyExcerpt.mov 8MB QuickTime, duet with Stefanie Ku. alumni.media.mit.edu/~dano/matrix/
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Post by chriscank on Mar 23, 2006 20:48:13 GMT -5
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Post by Bill on Mar 24, 2006 14:27:18 GMT -5
They stole my idea!
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