RGB Player

[update] a video is now online.

RGB Player

RGB Player by Toke Barter, is a cylinder-shaped musical instrument with a built in scanner and a mounted rotating disc. The ‘instrument’ is played by placing coloured objects (childrens toys) onto the surface of the rotating glass disc.

RGB Player

As an object passes over the scanner beneath the disc and its colour values are sampled, sound is generated in response to these colours and the object’s distance from the centre. The closer to the centre an object is situated - the higher the pitch achieved. Once a pattern of objects is created on the disc, a musical pattern emerges - where adding or removing objects will change the nature of the performance. The diagram below shows how the rgb value of an object determins the sound sample instrument.

RGB Player

RGB Player won 2nd prize Helen Hamlyn Future Selves and The Thames & Hudson and RCA Society Art Book Prize. Toke is part of London based Radarstation.

[source: saw at RCA show 2004]

Posted on January 16th 2006 under Tangible, Toys, Turntable