Sep 15, 2018
Polvo by Merche Blasco
Gestural interface made from engraved acrylic discs, wood, and light sensors.
Using the structure and hardware that I built for Lobatus, I created a new variation to accommodate a different gestural vocabulary. My interaction with Polvo, with its three circular discs, borrows from the body language of a DJ scratching or spinning to navigate the timeline of a record. Here, I apply similar gestures to extract snippets of field recordings or compositions using a granulation synthesis process.
The granular engravings on Polvo’s discs are a reference this sound process, and they also make the discs easier for me to grasp and operate during performance. http://half-half.es/
