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Today's try. New invented instrument automated


Making recordings: safety boots required


I sadly broke 3 excellent C-series contact microphones because of excessive vibrations: the piezoelectric ceramic could not sustain it and cracked, resulting in a strange clipping/rattling effect.

So I build a soundbox, a bit like the daxophone idea, that I can clamp into place. Awaiting for some piezoelectric cells to put it inside it and try that up.

When Everything Is On the Edge of Breaking


Improvisation for the complete myriad of sound-makers, invented instruments, automata, video installation etc… I worked on during my residency at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE

Last day in residency

Well, it was the last day, so, at some point, I decided to push my prototypes a bit further, see where they could break. Well, they did not. So I made this improvisation, and probably because of the stress I just put them under, half my prototypes broke during this improvisation! 

In the background

Reflexion

19 mirrors, 19 servo motors, 1 LED projector, SSC-32, Teensy, surface speaker/transducer

In the foreground

Saws played with solenoids played via MIDI, with a QuNeo, using an interface I designed during the residency.

Flexamaton on the left - flexed sheet metal with a slinky 

Flexamaton on the right - flexed sheet metal with a infinite bow (like a motorised hurdy-gurdy)

Step motors for the two Flexamata controlled via MIDI, with a Korg Nano, using a interface I designed during the residency.

Metal harp that I designed for Play; (that is actually more like a thumb piano)

A heatsink

Saws

A Flex-Helixophone (on the right) flex sheep metal with a slinky 

Live electronics, using a old patch of mine that I control with a SoftStep and a QuNexus

Extraits de la performance de fin de résidence du 26 février


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