title: cera/mic
type: sound installation - sound sculpture
year: 2016 [work in progress]
author/composer: Odysseas Klissouras, Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Ingrid Murphy
funded by: Fab-Cre8, Cardiff School of Art and Design internal grant, Cardiff Metropolitan University
The present project concerns the research in the creation of aerophone musical instruments from ceramic material using contemporary computer-based technologies. Those instruments are designed algorithmically and digitally fabricated in FabLabs, a worldwide network of digital fabrication laboratories. The project is funded by FAB-Cre8, a multi-disciplinary research and enterprise group based in Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University. Ideas and approaches originating from the computational crafts and design merge with concepts and techniques coming from the fields of sound and music computing and sonic arts. The collection of the fabricated aerophones are triggered by air streams coming out of compressors controlled numerically by microcontrollers. Those instruments-sculptures will be exhibited in gallery spaces when the project finishes.