Semi Automated Electric Guitar
An improvised human/machine duet with a Semi- Automated electric guitar that I designed and built myself (hardware and software) This guitar has been designed to respond to my improvised playing in real time. Creating a live improvised conversation between the player and the mechanised instrument. Mechanised functions can also be pre programed to playback sequences via midi. I created this instrument to unify the two main streams of my practice of mechanized acoustic instrument designer and improvising guitarist. It completely recontextualizes a very familiar instrument, breaking habits and opening up new territories. It is intended to both be a fight for control over the instrument with the digital mechanisations and a technological extension of the musicians body. The Guitar is plugged directly into the amplifier with no effects. Keeping it as close to an amplified acoustic instrument as possible with a direct sound and a naked sensitivity.
An improvised human/machine duet with a Semi- Automated electric guitar that I designed and built myself (hardware/software) to unify the two main streams of my practice of mechanized acoustic instrument designer/improvising guitarist. It completely recontextualizes a very familiar instrument, breaking habits and opening up new territories. Intended to both be a fight for control over the instrument with the digital mechanisations and a technological extension of the musicians body. The Guitar is plugged directly into the amplifier remaining as close to an amplified acoustic instrument as possible for a direct sound and a naked sensitivity.
