Musical Instrument, 1999
This musical instrument was designed as part of a digitally networked quartet. The piece is built of acrylic and vinyl tubing. The device-computer interaction is enabled through microphone and linear potentiometer sensors, a Handy Board, and Lingo and Interactive C programming. This instrument creates chords up to six notes in length. To play it, the instrumentalist must begin to blow into the mouthpiece while simultaneously sliding the plastic handle along the side. In doing that once, two tones will sound. Upon blowing into the mouthpiece, the distance the slider travels is recorded and calculated, and two notes are sounded that distance apart around Middle C on the scale. The third time blown, at this stage six notes are sounding, the instrument invites the quartet to join in by sending values to a server-side application and receiving those sent from others.
