Music for Flesh II < PdCon 2011 >
Artist: Marco Donnarumma
Music for Flesh II (Marco Donnarumma 2011,present) is a solo sonic piece for augmented muscles sounds, which aims at demonstrating an experimental coupling between unheard sounds of muscle gestures and corresponding sound synthesis played back through loudspeakers.
In Music for Flesh II the only musical instrument available to the performer is his own body. Performer’s voluntary muscles contractions produce kinetic energy, an acoustic sound which is captured by the biosensor and deployed as only sonic source. At the same time the biological signal undergoes a feature extraction which provides several control parameters for the real time processing of muscles sounds.
Performer uses his body not only as a controller, but, more importantly, also as a truly real musical instrument; he is capable of actually creating music in real time exciting his muscles fibres.
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4th international Pure Data Convention 2011 Weimar ~ Berlin