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.:: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Irregular Incurve Robotic Instrument



Over at ITP, Xiaoyang Feng created the Irregular Incurve as part of his thesis. As Hack-a-Day describes it:

it’s a midi instrument with an array of 12 strung bows mounted to a curved shower rod. the end of each bow has a tuning key. the strings are each picked using independently mounted arms. one servo controls the downward motion of the pick while the other controls the rotation of the shaft. a damper is also attached to each arm. the string vibrations are transferred to a spruce soundbox under the bridge.


There is also video of the instrument in action:





I think that what I like about this piece is that it works from the opposite direction that a lot of work has been going, which is instead of focusing on the interface, and what it is that the audience interacts with, it instead focuses on side of the mechanics of the sound's creation. And I appreciate that. Great piece!

Posted at 11:29 AM by Ian  | 
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