For this iteration of the guitars, we used the same concepts for the patches as we did for Oslo Skaperfestival 2022;
- one patch that were based on controlling the pitch of different samples with the IR camera and turning them on and off with a snap or clap,
- and one patch that used the accelerometer in the guitars, where a jerking-motion would control the pitch of oscillators.
For this event the sample-based patches were not based on acoustic guitars, but rather a choir, some textural bell-sounds and an arpeggiator synth, and an electric guitar. The latter playing the melody to "Brother John", and where interacting with IR-camera imitates a string bender on an electric guitar. The sample of the choir is of them singing a C major 7 chord, and interacting with the proximity of the IR-camera can shift this to a Bbmaj7, Gmaj7 or an Fmaj7 chord. The textural bell sound with the arpeggiator synth also plays in four different speeds which you can control using the IR-camera. This outputs an arpeggiator with a harmonic root in C, F, G or C (an octave above), respectively. The three sample-based guitars were hanging from the ceiling.
The other three guitars, in which mainly used the accelerometer, were placed in floor stands, to encourage people to pick them up and shake them. This patch is very similar to the one we used for Oslo Skaperfestival, with a few exceptions:
- We used cosine wave oscillators, instead of noise oscillators.
- We used many more oscillators, with a big range of different start-pitches. These settings were mainly discovered by trial and error, and it resulting in the output sounding a bit like a "crying baby" was a fun surprise.
We then had to call this second patch the "cry babies". Like with the "Balloon"-guitars (from Skaperfestivalen), the sound of the three guitars' patches differs in timbre because of different starting-pitches and number of oscillators.
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