24 Aug
2007
24 Aug
'07
8:40 a.m.
thomas fisher wrote:
On Thursday 23 August 2007 03:05:33 david wrote:
I've used Wacom tablets for over 10 years. Quite delightful, and it
would be a very new space as far as a music instrument interface goes.
But it wouldn't work like any of the instruments that humans have
developed centuries of expertise playing.
I hope someday to have the money for a Theremin. Humans have been
developing eye-hand control and dexterity for a million+ years - might
as well play to human strengths!
Ken Restivo wrote:
Possibly the price of exploring new spaces? It seems to me a different
interface is needed. A input dynamic device sensitive to the needs of the
application. Those who are aware of what a "Wacom" is to the digital graphics
arts. The Wacom wand is sensitive to location, pressure, tilt and the driver
also incorporates essential mouse functions, Thus the artist is cut free of
the limitations of the mouse, and of course providing the application being
interfaced to is Wacom smart. I continue to be amazed by the lengths that
we-all electronic
musicians go thorugh, in terms of painstaking sequencing and editing,
or long hours of programming and algorithm tweaking, in order to
approximate the things that a well-rehearsed band does when
performing in real time.
That's because digital control interfaces aren't
as rich as analog
control interfaces. Compare the expressiveness of a good violinist
playing a real violin vs a synthesized violin played through a MIDI
keyboard. My thought is the digital glove which
quantitizes the human hand and the applied pressures, It appears that the
devices are out of the lab. With the Open Source techno {knows} it could be
reality, soon.
A digital glove idea would be interesting, especially if they get to the
point where you can wear one and play without any feeling that it's
there, coming between your skin and the instrument.
Then you'd need a "digital bow" to capture the variations in bowing
speed, angle, pressure and tension of the bow. Then you feed all that
into a synthesizer able to adjust the synthesized sound appropriately
(note by note and WITHIN individual notes) - and you have a synthesizer
that could be as expressive as a violin.
Then we can tackle the process of matching the expressiveness of a
well-played Blues Harp! ;-)
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David
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