This is just plain...odd.



Another electric-field-sensing mode that we have explored is termed "shunt mode". This is when the body, unattached to any electrodes, exhibits a dominant coupling through ambient channels to the room ground. Then, as hands, feet, etc. move between transmit and receive electrodes, the received signal drops, as the body effectively shields the receiver from the transmitter. Although accurate tracking can be more difficult here, we have made several musical gesture interfaces out of shunt-mode electrode arrays.

Perhaps the most notorious of these is the Sensor Mannequin. Designed in collaboration with the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, there are several electrodes embedded in this device, creating descriptive MIDI streams as the body approaches various zones. A simpler embodiment is the "Sensor Frame"; an open rectangular structure made from PVC pipe, with copper electrodes at the corners and midway along the horizontal edges.

i KNEW there was something off about mani, but i didn't realize her name was short for MANNEQUIN!

"Oh no, it's not a sex doll, it's a musical instrument...."

"The Human Body" (1996)

that is some weird shit! weird that we neva heard of that untill now (maybe just me) I'd love to know more about his "collaboration" what role did Prince have in all this? did he take the thing home with him? strange....

seems like it's one of those kind of sound-machines that Laurie Anderson
and Peter Gabriel have designed as well, but in Prince's case, of cause,
it had to be a woman heheh.

Laurie Anderson created a "stick" instrument that made the weirdest and
most wonderful sounds, propelled by touch and movement etc.

probably designed during the Gold/Come era cause I can't see him doing
such a thing after 1996 really.

wow

IstenSzek2 said:

either that or a tchad blake binary type thingie..