Re: [tuning] Digest Number 1076

> --- In tuning@y..., Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@i...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/topicId_18009.html#18009
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> > Monz wrote:
> >
> > ***Imagine putting on your virtual-reality goggles, and building
> > a lattice of pitch relationships in 3- (or more?) dimensional
> > space around your body. Then you simply dance around inside
> > the lattice to create your music. The closer your hands (or
> > feet) come to any individual lattice-point, the louder it
> > becomes. Sort of a multi-dimensional harmonically quantized
> > theremin...
> >
> > +++Joe, I've got to ask you something...
> >
> > Did you have me in mind when you wrote this?
>
> Hi Sarn,
>
> No. I thought this up a little over two years ago, when I first
> lived in San Diego. I had the simple idea of making a ratio
> sound when its lattice-point was touched. Denny Genovese
> suggested having the volume of the pitch reflect the distance
> of the hand away from the lattice-point, an idea which reflected
> his deep interest in the Theremin at the time.
>
> The reason I posted this to the list when I did was explain
> at the beginning of my post: it was my response to some fantasies
> that had been posted about new types of flexibly-tuned pianos.
>
> But maybe I'd had a hunch that you'd respond...
>
> -monz

Perhaps it has already been mentioned, but some folks at the
MIT media lab have demonstrated a contraption that could do
this trick. They have been working on gestural controllers
for many years, and I saw Teller (?) of Penn and Teller
demonstrate a unit where he triggered sonic events just by
his motions inside a sensor equipped cage.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html