Jon - I really like your phrase
"... closer to the heart of what it means to be a musical instrument". My friend/colleague Panaiotis (in ABQ) plays hard in that domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnAqUfKsms&feature=youtu.be Here is quite a range of interesting entries into a competition he was in: https://guthman.gatech.edu/gallery I helped Panaiotis develop some of the early prototypes of this system and more to the point, apply his concepts/techniques to the "musification" of data. Our most successful project was the Immersive Network Intrusion Detection system circa 2003. Panaiotis has shifted his focus to a commercial app and a collection of STEAM projects: https://www.bandojo.us/ - Steve On 1/20/21 7:37 AM, jon zingale wrote: > Perhaps. Though I do find it sad that synthesizer design (for instance) so > quickly converged onto piano-like interfaces and the occasional switch pad. > For a moment there in the 70s and 80s, thanks to explorative minds of people > like the writers of ElectroNotes, there was the possibility of something > more and not simply by novelty. I would often enjoy flipping through the > journal and reading about reeded interfaces with nonlinear regimes and ideas > that seemed to get closer to the heart of what it means to be an instrument. > Wrestling and smacking the body of an acoustic instrument is nothing like > wrestling and smacking the body of a Casio keyboard. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
