K-Bow
Articles about K-Bow:
Yann Seznec, aka The Amazing Rolo, captured a set of videos of electronic musicians demonstrating their electronic musical instrument creations at Maker Faire 2009 in San Mateo.
In the first video, Elly Jessop, a masters student at MIT Media Lab, talks about her Vocal Augmentation and Manipulation Prosthesis (VAMP).
Marielle Jakobsons demos the Keith McMillen Instruments‘ K-Bow at Musikmesse April 4 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The K-Bow captures subtle gestures and elements of a string player’s performance and uses them to control just about anything.
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In this video, violinist Jon Rose controls ring modulation with the K-Bow, a Bluetooth enabled sensor bow for string instruments, turning Maurice Jarre’s Lara’s Theme, from Dr. Zhivago, into atonal sheets of sound. Read more…
In this video demo, violinist Jon Rose controls feedback with the K-Bow, a Bluetooth-enabled sensor bow for string instruments.
Filmed at STEIM, Amsterdam, 04/2009.
Keith McMillen’s K-Bow is a new sensor bow for stringed instruments.
Combined with a standard violin, bass, cello, or viola the K-Bow allows traditional instrumentalists to access the unlimited sound world that a computer provides, while utilizing the virtuosity built from years of practice.
The K-Bow gathers information about a performance through several sensors including an X Y and Z axis accelerometer, grip sensor, tilt sensor, playing pressure, distance from the instrument and gesture recognition. A suite of software lets a musician control the sound of the instrument, record with herself, or send the information to other standard music software.
This video demonstrates the K-Bow Data Screen:
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