Unsounding Objects
was an interdisplinary research project to create a novel digital musical interface for a percussionist. It was funded by two Centre for Indiscplinary Research in Music, Media, and Technology (CIRMMT) Student Awards, and the CIRMMT Director’s Prize for Interdisciplinary Research.
Credits
Ian Hattwick: Hardware and Software Design, Programming
Preston Beebe: Composition and Software Design
Zach Hale: Performance and Software Design
Publications
Hattwick, Ian, Preston Beebe, Zach Hale, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Phillippe Leroux, and Fabrice Marandola (2013). “Unsounding Objects: Audio Feature Extraction for Control of Sound Synthesis in a Digital Percussion Instrument”. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. London, England, pp. 597-600.
Conferences
September 18, 2015 – Transplanted Roots: Percussion Research Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
July 1, 2015 – New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) , Goldsmiths Great Hall, University of London, England
Flow Pots + Arduino
is a project that I’ve been working on to learn how to control solenoids from musical programs such as Ableton Live, SuperCollider, or Max/MSP. My main interest is to be able to control things in the physical world (playing instruments) to produce sound, as well as control in the digital realm (sound samples and synthesizers). If we integrate this devices that performers are used to using, just as microphones, click-tracks, and bluetooth pedals, then we can have performances using these technologies that incorporate human performers.