Dan Overholt’s Matrix synthesizer is a unique new instrument that gives users a 3-dimensional tactile interface to control sound.
According to Overholt, “Matrix provides a very intuitive method of manipulating sound with an amount of control that has never before been implemented in real-time.”
The Matrix generates musical output by mapping a performer’s expressive gestures to a variety of sonic parameters. It acts as an input device that directly manipulates the parameters of a synthesis engine (eg. additive, granular, wave-terrain…), or an effect alogrithm (eg. delay, reverb, filter-banks…) in response to the changing shape of the interactive surface.
One mapping uses the individual rods of the Matrix to directly control the digital waveform of a sound, thereby “sonically sculpting” the timbre of the sound.
See Overholt’s site at MIT for more information and demos.
"Dan Overholt’s Matrix synthesizer is a unique new instrument…"
But the video took ten years to come out?
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maybe I missed something here, but it seemed to me that no matter
how he moved or positioned his hands and fingers, it basically sounded the same.
Ξιι5
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