Instruments

2016, Till Bovermann

Instrument sets of the experimental musicians playing at the closing concert of the 3DMIN project (2016).

Voice

2016, Katharina Hauke

The evolution of voice started way before of the evolution of speech (which is quite a recent development in the process of evolution). Hence it allies us with our surroundings on a more basic, fundamental level. A connection through vibrations – via material that connects us (air, water, skin, to name a few) and that can be considered as you, as me, as not a part of either of us, as both of us, as a moving a margin…

Hybrid Interactive Instruments — thoughts on the Endangered Guitar

2014, Hans Tammen

I play guitar since 1972. I usually improvise and noticed early on that my improvisations were best when something unexpected and surprising happened, something that kept me on the edge of my seat. Such as strings breaking or sound-making gadgets falling off the guitar. However, these surprises were not under my control.

Scriptability and Algorithmic control

2014, Till Bovermann

Scriptability adds flexibility to instruments because it not only allows to define and alter the mapping between two instrument components on the fly but also enables to define and redefine the components themselves. This especially includes just-in-time adjustments of digital signal processing parts (see also Rohrhuber2008JustInTime).