Similar to my Absolut Machines post,prior (post prior?), the fellow who wrote the software for that glorified music box, Roberto Aimi, also has some very interesting projects of his own. Though being a MIT PhD student, that kinda goes without saying. Aimi is taking part in a bit of a revolution that's going on right now where composers have brought human input and a performance aspect back into the creation of music. Since the dawn of modernism in music, and also since the advent of computer music, the concert experience of "new music" has not been entirely engaging. Currently, there is a trend to bring the art of performing back into "new music" in order to bring the audience into the experience. This instrument maker is combining sensors and playback with basic acoustic percussion instruments. I'm not sure how the triggering/sampling process works, but he's put some work into it, that's for sure. This is his thesis work and he has put it on the website, will report back when I've read it.
Here is the page with videos of his instruments::
Hybrid Percussion: Extending Physical Instruments Using Sampled Acoustics
Check out his homepage to see the other creatures he's created.
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