Musique Concrete: skateboard as digital musical instrument
Jake keeps talking about contact mics or other sensors on the coping at the skatepark, then doing some kind of contest for longest grind based on data from these sensors. But, this skateboard is pretty sick too, ok, sicker!
Musique Concrete: skateboard as digital musical instrument: “David Pescovitz:
Artist Simon Morris outfitted a skateboard with various sensors that convert acceleration, turns, and vibration into data that’s wirelessly transmitted to a laptop. The computer than translates that data into sound, generating an ‘acoustical map’ of the city being thrashed. From the description of the project, titled Musique Concrete:
Tricks and movements generate real-time sounds allowing the skateboarder to composes his/her soundtrack of the city. Furthermore, combining tricks and movements result in unique and often unexpected musical compositions. Used in conjunction with ramps, obstacles, ledges and other architectural elements that make up the skateboarder’s universe, Musique Concrete provides the listener with a sonic imprint of the urban environment.
Link(Thanks, Dave Gill!)
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(Via Boing Boing.)
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