<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Thanks everybody for the feedbacks, hopefully soon I'll be posting another piece using two arms and no stand.</div><div><br></div><div>@Max: Sure, so...</div><div><br></div><div>I actually don't trigger any sound nor pre-recorded sound. All the sonic material you hear is the only muscle sound processed in real time.</div>
<div>By "muscle sounds" I mean the voluntary contractions of arm muscles.</div><div>It's a phenomenon known as MMG mechanical myography, namely the vibration of muscle fibres, which is being currently explored in biomedical computing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I use the MMG signal both as a sonic source and parameter controls.</div><div>So far I could extract 6 independent binary triggers (fingers) and 2 moving events (overall continuous average and max value).</div>
<div><br></div><div>There's still a lot of work to do (I'm looking into neural networks to improve the feature extraction), but it's real fun and intuitive to play with it.</div><div>I've got a paper in the pipeline which will describe the development.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>M</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Marco,<br>
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can you describe/do you understand the biophysical process that<br>
triggers your sound?<br>
looks scary and sounds great imho<br>
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regards,<br>
max<br>
Am 21.02.2011 um 15:05 schrieb Andy Farnell:<br>
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> Very interesting low frequencies from the muscles.<br>
> Glad to hear this at last Marco,<br>
> thanks for posting the vid.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Marco Donnarumma<br>Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Professional, Performer, Instructor<br>ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)<br>
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