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Liquid MIDI

Dans cette vidéo vous verrez des textiles avec de la peinture électrique. Le tout est connecté et permet de faire des sons, il y en a un qui bourdonne un peu comme un didgeridoo. Ce sera plus clair dans la vidéo. On n’arrête  pas le progrès.

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Liquid Midi by EJ Tech

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Liquid Midi by EJTech

The last time we wrote about Hungarian textile innovation lab EJTech, formed by MOME Alumni Eszter Judit Kárpáti and Esteban de la Torre was when they won a first prize of the Frankfurt-based Techtextil 2015. Now we proudly present their newest work, a musical interface using screenprinted conductive ink, the first pilots of which were realized with the support of Bare Conductive.

L I Q U I D   M I D I

Materials

- conductive ink - neoprene - pyrite - bismuth - conductive thread - assorted electronics - arduino board

Description

Liquid MIDI is a experimental textile interface for sonic interactions, exploring aesthetics and morphology in contemporary design. The technology is screen printed directly onto a textile surface, then through an Arduino micro controller communicates with the desired software, using MIDI protocol. This unique interaction with this textile interface allows the medium to become part of the message, where the interface becomes part of the process of creation itself.

Brief

Sound is a medium that has been increasingly gaining ground in the visual arts during recent decades, despite this seeming contradictory. Technology plays one of the main roles in this multi disciplinary crossover, allowing not only for this amalgamation of the visual and auditory practices, but to further our ventures into how do we form this experience and with what tools do we design this multifaseted, polysensorial undertaking .

Processes

Much of our artistic research involves building with textiles and flexible materials, due to its functional and aesthetic advantages, as well as it being ideal for studies looking to integrate different sensory modalities. The flexibility of screen printing a working interface onto a bendable surface and being able to control digital devices and applications through it, opens doors to infinite possibilities, allowing to indulge in an hyper connected, interwoven user experience.

Values

Man has not always been dominated by vision. A primordial dominance of hearing has only gradually been replaced by that of vision. Technology increasingly allows for the integration of touch, kinaesthesia as well as hearing, shattering the prevailing notions on the hierarchisation of the senses. While vision distances and separates us from the surrounding world, the rest of the senses unite and incorporate us to it. We aim on proposing a more balanced, coherent multi sensory perception of reality.

Intent

Our intent with Liquid MIDI, is to enable the user to experience a balanced interaction and engagement, focusing not only the importance of the aesthetics, but making them functional and utterly important, while integrating, with the same importance, an elaborate haptic experience through an experimental textile interface, concluding with the real time creation of sound.

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Watch This Guy Make Eerie Electronic Music Using Ink on Paper

Thanks to the magic of things like light sensors and accelerometers, it’s possible to turn nearly anything into a musical instrument. Next up: screenprinted pieces of paper.

Liquid Midi, a forthcoming project from ejtechnology, uses electrically conductive ink to send messages to electronic instruments like samplers and synthesizers. When the guy touches the ink in the video below, the ink “notices” his touch and produces an electrical signal, which is sent through the attached wires and converted into MIDI—a kind of universal code that nearly all electronic instruments can understand—then interpreted by a computer or synthesizer that is likely sitting offscreen. Effectively, that means he’s playing the synthesizer by touching the paper—when he places his finger on one of the dots to the left, for example, it triggers a beeping sound.

You could theoretically use Liquid Midi to control any electronic sound at all: from the drones and John Cage samples demonstrated in the video below to more conventional music. If you wanted to, you could use Liquid Midi to imitate a piano, or a guitar, or a singing human voice.The device in the video is an early prototype, but from the video description, it sounds like ejtechnology plans to eventually release a commercial version. Alternately, here’s a tutorial for building your own.

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