Atau Tanaka
Atau Tanaka / The new Biomuse http://www.sensorband.com/atau/
The timing for this demo is very good, the new version of the instrument was finished yesterday. This means that there is a distinct “before” and “after” in the history of the instrument.
Bckground: The Biomuse picks up neural signals in the arms in the 4 muscle groups: inner arm and outer arm, on the left and the right arm.
Atau started by demo’ing the “before” Biomuse. Showing us the quality of the signal and the processing he does in MAX. It is a very lively signal, it requires some smoothing. The instrument is very gestural but it does not nessesarilly require motion. It is running on a laptop, but it should not be a laptop performance.
The “after” Biomuse: The instrument has been extended with non-bio-sensors and gloves. There are push button switches on the palm of the hands and tilt switches on the arms.
Atau has stayed with these sensors because it feels good. It is an instrument that he has lived with for a long time, in a way it is a new instrument now and he will now have to learn to play it from scratch.
December 10th, 2008 at 13:04
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