photo by Ivo Christov The Lights and Shadows Wall is an interactive installation that is the result from a collaboration between musician and artist Ivan Shopov (Balkansky/Cooh) and digital artist Albena Baeva. The Lights and Shadows Wall consists of a lit white wall and a motion tracking system. We use Read more…
Mocapton is a motion-capture costume designed as a musical instrument for the interactive dance performance Azamen, by Runabout project. The Mocapton includes buttons and sensors that allow the two dancers in the performance to create, manipulate and compose music through their movements. The instrument consists of a combination of custom-built Read more…
TM01 is a musical interface specially designed for the performance The DNA of Words. An old typewriter is enriched with sensors that allow sounds to be recorded and modified through a Puredata patch.
picture by Zdravko Dimov The sensor-based accordion was created by Albena Baeva, Petya Boyukova and Simeon Ianchev. The technology is based on two open source platforms: Arduino and Puredata. Bergeron Accordion is a special controller-instrument for accordionist, that was demonstrated by Andronia Popova (Nasekomix) in the performance Bergeron Experiment. Bergeron Read more…
Елементарна частица from Albena Baeva on Vimeo. Or the Halldorophone as it was named by its inventor Halldor Ulfarsson. The banjo was made in Berlin during a workshop for building Halldorophones. These electro-acoustic string instruments which send the sound from their pickups back into their bodies. When the sound has Read more…
picture by Zdravko Dimov The original idea belongs to Svilen Ivanov, he needed something to hang his strings on and he liked the glass door of a cupboard. The design was inspired by a lonely useless piece of glass in Delyan Manev’s workshop for windows. The body was made there, Read more…