tactile interface electronic music textiles textile
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Textiles as interface
The XY interactive textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by the movement of his/her hand on it’s surface. This textile interface allows users to compose and interpret electronic music by choreographic movements. By its size, its texture, its flexibility and its transparency, this textile interface involves the whole body in the musical interpretation. Like a music score, the sound elements are graphically represented on the fabric, giving to the composer the ability to locate and play (with) them. Thus, for each piece of music, a graphic partition is carried out.
It’s open source as well, so all the code (one processing sketch and lot of Pure Data patches) can be found on the website. Also they provided wtih all assembly instructions and arduino lilypad code, but they all in french.