Collidoscope
Musical Instrument (2015)
An interactive, collaborative musical instrument allowing to seamlessly record, manipulate, explore and perform real-world sounds. Collidoscope is designed for collaborative sound adventures and jamming of 2 (or more) people.
Happy 10th birthday! (read more here)
Role: Co-Inventor | Concept, product design & build, hardware development
Team: Fiore Martin | audio development & programming
Highlight: Becoming a spark for granular desktop instruments, an instrument type that did not yet exist in 2015.
Locations: Ars Electronica, Linz Sónar 2015 & 2016, Barcelona | Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Resources:
Interview: ‘How it was made’ (in ACM Interactions)
Open source version of Collidoscope can be found here.
Pieter van der Meer (Tasty Chips Electronics) on how Collidoscope was the inspiration for GR-1 (link).
Collidoscope 2015 website
Collidoscope @ Sonar 2015
Fiore Martin performing with Collidoscope
Setup @ Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Collidoscope Dual Interface
@ Ars Electronica 2016 (credit: Tom Mesic)
Collidoscope @ Sonar 2015
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