One of the co-founders of STEIM which co-hosted the MMW, Waisvisz is a composer/performer of live electronic music, who has invented new ways to achieve physical touch with electronic music instruments, for example by literally touching the electricity inside the instruments. He illustrated his quest to find and develop a physical relationships with electronic musical instrument by performing an improvised electronic piece using The Hands, an interface he conceived in the early 1980s. The aluminum plates worn like some kind of gloves contain touch sensitive keys, thumb pressure sensors, and tilt and proximity sensors. His demo showed how the sound and words he made in the microphone could be transposed, scratched and re-arranged.
In the '60s, when he was a teenager he would do some musical experiments with his brother: putting a piano upside down and playing the isntrument just by touching his strings or they would stick a trumper in a bucket of soap and discover interesting sounds. He showed us a fantastic picture of him becoming literally a tape reading machine using "The TapePuller" instrument. He'd pull one forward with a foot to create music while rewinding the other tape unheard of the public with the other foot. He discussed his fascination for the VC3, a synthetiser that can be used without a keyboard, adding that the idea of the keyboard comes from church music and thus carries a series of connotations with it. This was the inspiration for what later became the CrackleBoxes. he was fascinated by the idea of a human being who is turned into a variable electronic conductor/resistor, and a thinking wet element of the musical instrument.
He is genius, trying to invent something new, can attract people to like music, play music instrument or even compose music. The interactivity between human physical and music instruments, you can even dance, walk, or move while playing. Instrument that would allow you to touch sound. By mean to operate, navigate, compose, mold and play sound in a sensible, refined and even sensual.
What I can connect this article with my FYP Project are from the gadget or music instruments that he designed people with no musical knowledge, can even play the instruments, like when you are imagine on how your music is going to looks like, the beat, tempo and melody and play like you want to. Many people are now experiments with touch interfaces. Invented new ways to achieve physical touch with electronic music instruments in a musical way.
Contextual Studies
My project is directly involved in some contexts that I can identify, such as personal, social and cultural. What I found in the personal context is, I likes to hear music, like the others or not. Hence, indirectly we can express our own creative expression in the world of music. In Social context, is to gather people to play around with the system. From this, they can interact with each other and the system, sharing of ideas and communication among them. On the cultural front, it involves music, art, design, and sound effects.
Budget
PC = RM 1500
Speaker = RM 200
Webcam = RM 45
Projector = RM 1000
Platform = RM 300
Marker = RM 40
Poster = RM 20
Total = RM 3105
Floor Plan
Interface Design
Technical Diagram
Experiments
Sketches
References
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/05/michel-waisvisz.php
Budget
PC = RM 1500
Speaker = RM 200
Webcam = RM 45
Projector = RM 1000
Platform = RM 300
Marker = RM 40
Poster = RM 20
Total = RM 3105
Floor Plan
Interface Design
Technical Diagram
Experiments
Sketches
References
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/05/michel-waisvisz.php
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