interface : Electronic Chamber Ensemble
This work addresses the creation of novel electronic music performance tools for artists and musicians, but it is incremental in building on existing interface and speaker technologies.
The paper presents the development of gestural instruments and interactive performance interfaces, including spherical speakers and Sensor-Speaker-Arrays, for improvisational music by the duo 'interface', with examples from newly published CDs.
This paper presents the interface developments and music of the duo "interface," formed by Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman. We describe gestural instrument design, interactive performance interfaces for improvisational music, spherical speakers (multi-channel, outward-radiating geodesic speaker arrays) and Sensor-Speaker-Arrays (SenSAs: combinations of various sensor devices with spherical speaker arrays). We discuss the concept, design and construction of these systems, and, give examples from several newly published CDs of work by Bahn and Trueman.