digital musical instruments and interfaces
The Turkish Ney is steeped in cultural significance. A traditional wind instrument, it was first played around 4500 years ago but its breath control is difficult and few around the world can teach it. Ethnomusicologist John O'Connell, Sonic Art Scholar Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos and User Experience Designer Anthony Mace developed digitaly fabricated Ney replicas with electronic sensors and a performance visualisation application to enable learning online.
The Haptic Fader enclosure was designed and fabricated in Berlin for a workshop that took place at Ableton's Loop festival 2017. It is a continuation of the FireFader project (Edgar Berdahl / Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos) focused on the form and the materials of the device.
Semantron is an object used in monasteries to signal sonically events in the monks life. This project transforms this object into an interactive sound sculpture and an augmented interactive musical instrument.
Game | Lan is a digitally fabricated digital musical instrument based on the Bela board, an open-source embedded computing platform. It was co-fabricated in five Fab Labs (an international network of digital fabrication laboratories) in South America.
The current version of the PCB board of the haptic fader device was co-developed Ljudmila Art and ScienceLaboratory in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It was developed for the Haptic Fader workshop which took place during my residency in Ljudmila Art and ScienceLaboratory.
The FireFader is a simple haptic force-feedback device that is optimised for introducing musicians to haptics. It is based upon a single-degree-of-freedom potentiometer fader coupled to a DC motor, also known as a “motorised fader.