New subject: Chris McCormick

24 Aug 2007

thomas fisher wrote:
...
  On Thursday 23 August 2007 03:05:33 david wrote:
  Ken Restivo wrote:
  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.  
   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'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!

...
  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! ;-)

-- 
David
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