What if, a piano with white keys that have different textures, colours, yeahhh maybe low usability? but interesting!
(Source: britybritt)
mmmm another cool musical project about how any suface could be an instrument: Touch Interfaces everywhere
This is kind of amazing: if you put a contact microphone on a hard surface and then process the sound in realtime, you can turn that surface into a touch screen…or a programmable musical instrument.
Zamborlin’s own words, here’s how the magic is accomplished:
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds. In the video we used two different audio synthesis techniques:
- physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;
- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.
