TIEM

Mary Simoni: designer, builder, software developer, composer

The performer wears jewelry (e.g. a bracelet) that communicates with a microprocessor connected to a computer.

Bill Hsu: principal design
John Butcher: research contributions, evaluations

Bill Hsu’s Unnamed instrument consists of 2 components:

1) Real-time audio input drives analysis/resynthesis modules
2) Wacom tablet controls synthesis algorithms

Bill writes —
“Timbral and gestural characteristics are extracted from real-time audio input from a single instrument (usually saxophone). A virtual ensemble of improvising agents references these characteristics in their performance. A user may also control the agents at various levels, such as selecting high-level behavioral tendencies, or fine-grain shaping of timbrally rich gestures.”