#eigenharp

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Eigenharp Elephant - Illustration process timelapse

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Eigeharp Elephant

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Eigenharp Demo

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Something new to explore #eigenharp #synth

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The Clipper Ableton Live Guitar Controller

If you’re brave enough, you can take your favorite (but simple) DJ midi controller and hack it apart to see what’s underneath.  It may not be as simple as you thought.  I for one tried this with my Akai LPD8 midi controller, hoping that I would find switches and sensors underneath that I could manipulate to create my own Frankenstein controller.  When you really get down into it, you’ll find that the sensor underneath each pad is specifically designed for the button directly above it.  There are no single solder points that you can unsolder to wire in your own – it goes way beyond connecting wires together. [embed width="656"]http://youtu.be/9db3f96NPTA[/embed] It doesn’t mean that it can’t be hacked; it just takes more knowledge than the average tinkerer may possess.  When I see new MIDI instruments being developed, it takes me back and I congratulate those who have put in some serious time to create these beasts.  The Clipper controller is actually a beauty compared to other creations out there.  It has to form factor of a guitar, yet each string represents a line in a typical Ableton session layout.  They’re also LED lit, which I assume matches the color codes of each sample on your Ableton screen. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/12/18/the-clipper-ableton-live-guitar-controller/

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Concert with new Program on Apr 1

Come and listen to our new program Eo3 : Echos of Eternity on Apr 1 in Bülach at Guss39 or on May 6 at Dock18.

Eo3 : Echos of Eternity

Growth

Origami

Dreams

AEthereal

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A new age for digital musicians: Geert Bevin at TEDxTartu

I just found another one of those highly innovative new digital music instruments. Or let me rephrase: this Eigenharp though seems more like an entire ensemble of instruments in one.  2013 has been a special year for music technology. I wonder what has been happening in the mean time?  I do know a team of people around Mandy Mozart and VJ Fader who have been working on a tablet based new digital music instrument called EDMT App. About a year ago I was able to talk to the guys and test out the Demo Version. Sadly their crowdfunding campaign did not reach it’s goal last year wich slowed down the development of the app. 

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Dragica Kahlina

Dragica is a Zürich-based soundartist (calling herself ‘Klangkünstlerin’) and programmer. She also initiated the Zürich Gamespace together with Aurelio Lucchesi - a work space to push creativity and game creation as well as to meet as a community. She can also be seen with a very interesting and weird instrument called the Eigenharp.

But first things first: Dragica studied physics, mathematics and astronomy. She started her career mostly at bigger game studios like EA Phenomic and Neo Wien. In the early 2000s, she was responsible for AI and tool programming for the RPGs Spellforce 1, 2 and Sacred 2.

In 2012 she went indie to join Janina Woods and Sebastian Tobler to create the VR horror game Black Island under the Wotokah banner. Although she also did some coding, her main part was the creation of sound, especially sound AI to have a more dynamic world.

Nowadays Dragica mostly focuses on her work as sound artist. Her speciality are crazy, weird, eerie soundscapes. Instead of using classic instruments she experiments with new sound and music controllers. A lot of this new tools come with a load of software that can be used more deeply with programming. Like the Eigenharp, which she additionally programs with C++.

The Eigenharp is a synthesyzer, and more a controller than an instrument played with a laptop, iPad, highly sensitive buttons that have three axes to move into, breath control, and pressure sensors. The ‘instrument’ was created by a mathematician and even has a developer conference (only one musician took part out of mostly software developers at the first meet-up). The instrument can be used with open source software.

Watch Dragica talk about and play with her very unique approach to sound:

Furthermore and also very entertaining: Dragica took part in the Tour Bueno by Benedict Hummel and Marius Winter. Watch the three of them brainstorm together to create a game around Zürich in only three days.

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