Jim Andrews wrote:
Here is a review I wrote (
http://netpoetic.com/2010/05/the-daxophonic-hans-reichel-of-daxo-de ) of
a
suite of 12 interactive audio Flash works at daxo.de by Hans Reichel.
Henrik Anderson wrote:
It's been a while since I have experienced such an unorganized mess of
ideas and a lack of a clear point. I love it.
Glad you liked it, but look out, Henrik. The more times you see it, the more
sense it makes. The daxophone is famous for the voice-like sounds it makes.
I gather that almost all of the audio was done with the various "tongues" of
the daxophone. He has created an amazing chorus of stringed musical
instruments that, together, 'speak' a very rich musical language that does
indeed merit its own font.
From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daxophone ):
"The daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel, is a experimental musical
instrument of the friction idiophones category. It consists of a thin
wooden blade fixed in a wooden block (often attached to a tripod), which
holds one or more contact microphones. Normally, it is played by bowing the
free end, but it can also be struck or plucked, which propagates sound in
the same way a ruler halfway off a table does.[1] These vibrations then
continue to the wooden-block base, which in turn is amplified by the contact
microphone(s) therein. A wide range of voice-like timbres can be produced,
depending on the shape of the instrument, the type of wood, where it is
bowed, and where along its length it is stopped with a separate block of
wood (fretted on one side) called the "dax."
One of the reasons, I think, that daxo.de is so good is because Reichel is
deeply familiar with the construction of interfaces with character, via his
daxophones and their "tongues".
In part, daxo.de is a reflection on what's to keep and what to throw away in
our notions of lively, engaging interfaces.
ja
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