Sound Sculpting is a new, real-time design environment for Virtual Musical Instruments (VMI). Now a sound artist or musician can design a musical instrument according to his or her wishes with the required or desired gestural and musical constraints instead of physically based constraints only.
Our environment allows you to create, edit or perform sounds
by changing parameters like position, orientation and shape of
graphically displayed objects that can be programmed to behave in
any manner desirable. Manipulation occurs with either one or both
hands wearing datagloves.
How to use it ...Thusfar, in our exploration of this world of new musical
expression possibilities, we have performed with VMIs that behave
like a rubber balloon or sheet and that control sound
spatialization and timbre parameters. We are particularly excited
about left-hand-only sound sculpting, which leaves the right hand
free to play a keyboard, because it seems to be a much-needed
replacement for and extension of the standard keyboard modulation
wheel.
View this quicktime video (45 MB) of
Sound Sculpting.
See my list of publications for papers on Sound Sculpting.