Unconventional Digital Instruments

Wintergatan's Unconventional Performance Systems

Hi everyone! In looking for unconventional digital instruments/controllers, I found some videos from a YouTuber I've followed for some time, Wintergatan. He is a musician that builds many different homemade instruments. Two of his most well known creations are the Marble Machine and the Modulin. The videos are linked below! Although the Marble Machine is more of a mechanical instrument than a digital one, I found it interesting to think about how you could make a digital equivalent of the instrument.

Last week's cloud update

Hey all! I forgot to post the progress I made last week on the cloud.

I bought 100 hangers and have been making sphere-like wire frames that I will be attaching all my electronics onto. I got some fabric and have been experimenting with different cuts and 'paper mache' style folds. Here is a video from the experiments:

Structure has taken a form!

Hello all -

I got all of my pieces cut and they fit together as planned! Take a look at the attached pics!

Plan of Attack/Replacement for Missing Class Tuesday

Hello all, my apologies for not being in class on Tuesday to present and give feedback. I had a complicated night (i.e. I was locked out the crib/stranded till mad early A.M.). 

But yo, find below a detailed plan I have for tackling what I feel will be a SICK instillation on the 26th. Please comment with any thoughts or concerns. Just thought I'd share to give an idea as to where I'm at. 

Melding

Main Tasks:

1. Composition (Developed by Tues. 18th; Finalized by Sat.22)

—> Individual Touches 

a. Light Touches (Finger tips)  — 4 Variations 

b. Large Touches (whole hand) — 4 Variations 

c. Short Contact  —6 variations 

d. Sustained Contact —6 variations 

ideas for touching:

	Short Contact	Sustained Contact
Light Touch (Finger tip)	Slowly fading in beginnings of—>	Circulating arpeggio glock clings w/ soft attack and washed reverb
Large Touch (Whole Hand)	Thick synth chord w/ flanger and chorus with medium release time	Unfolding chords of larger composition. Generative triggering with amalgamation of different cells w/ 3 chords in each

       

         ii. MAX Patching (Done by Tues. 18th) 

1. Designating Specific Touch Data Ranges (Soft vs. large) —assign to       corresponding composition cell
2. Counters for duration of contact—>corresponding composition cell
3. **CROSSFADING between types of contact so that it’s as seamless as the touch

        iii.  Physical Building —(“A.” Done by Fri. 14th; “B”=ongoing)

 A.  new arm bands w/ copper tape SENSORS: Robust wiring/extensions to the breadboard 

B. Pillows, lamps w/ mood lighting/general set up of instillation 

      iv. Conceptual Cultivation 

A. Roll of and engaging bystanders/spectators? 

B. Words denoting rolls on the arm bands or no?

C. What’s their relationship to the blanket/sound coming from participants? 

blinds and mechanisms

I finally has a solid direction on my installation.
On top of the blurring and scaling visuals, I am currently figure out the mechanisms.
 this is my finalized idea and the setup
it requires a projector, table to mount that projector. a frame and a piece of frabic to project on
and blinds!

this are some sketches about how i am going to make my gears.



I was stuck on how to attach sensors to my blinds
But i am going to laser cut a few things to try it out.

Cloud Progress

I've been through quite a few phases with my cloud installation, so I thought I would upload the various stages so far: This is my original cloud prototype made with polyester and one LED. I really noticed how the LED diffused nicely with the polyester These are the speakers I will be embedding into the cloud I've also been experimenting with different fabrics, including chiffon, linen and crinolin - which I will use for different textures of the clouds