Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Music Instrument Controllers with Fiber and Malleable Materials

Topic(s): Arts | Crafts | Music

Tags: Fiber Sensors Music Controller Kalimba

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New materials like conductive thread, piezoresistive textiles and carbon fiber make it possible to build compelling new musical instrument controllers in minutes and hours without the carpentry skills traditional lutherie require. I will show you how to build these new instruments and invent your own.

Web site: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/library/music_controllers_using_fiber_and_malleable_materials

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About the Maker(s)

Adrian Freed Adrian Freed
Adrian Freed is research director at UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technogies. He developed the popular OSC protocol built into numerous software packages and hardware gesture controllers. He developed the first audio plugin standard. He is developing fiber and fabric music controllers, new guitar controllers and resonance sound synthesizers. His etextile work was recently featured at the Exploratorium
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/adrian_freed