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Posted April 21st 2010 under Drawing, Sound, iPhone, openFrameworks
This is Sonic Wire Sculptor, an software musical instrument, made by the talented Amit Pitaru in 2003 (and onwards).
Originally conceived as a performance tool for Pitaru, it later became an exhibit for touring to museums/festivals for public use.
“At its simplest form SonicWireSculptor is a novel 3D drawing tool and a unique musical instrument, but perhaps most important - its just fun to play with.”
What is so good about this piece is you can dive right in and draw these rotating tones, its very accessible. Yet if you spend a lot of time with it, you can delve deeper and play through delicate and intricate compositions.
Zach Gage along with Pitaru have now created it as an iPhone/iTouch app (get it here). Following on from their work together on the software Rhonda, they had help with SWS from Zach Lieberman and drawings by James Paterson.
It translates very well to such a small device, considering the technical limitations of the hardware. You really must wear headphones to hear all the tones. Nice little touches for ease of use include background horizontal guide lines, seeing the start of the loop line and centre cross timing metronome. The app also lets you share your creation through email or twitter, uploaded and downloaded via the SWS site.
Hopefully we will see a HD iPad version, as well as online sharing gallery with ratings. Looking forward to hopefully seeing Rhonda on the iPad too.
You can follow updates on the app via @sonicwire
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