Whackers from first HUB CD
1988 - CSUHayward Designed and built "whackers" 64 channel percussion
robot 1 Amp per solenoid channel with Robert Marsanyi HMSL based
instruments remaps midi note events to solenoid note num. = whacker #
vel=period and intensity of hit The HUB CD on artifact cut 5 "whackers"
Notes from CD:
The whackers are a number of individual solenoids or relays that have the capability of whacking or (?JH)string objects in their proximity when told to do so by a computer. In this case they were arranged next to an entire gallery, the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, full of large sound sculpture objects designed by Tom Nunn and Bob B. Hobbs. These sculptural objects were things such as large suspended sheets of steel with brass rods welded to them, a piano harp, a suspended automobile fuel tank, a circular sheet of steel suspended on balloons, and others. The development of the whackers grew out of the notion that some visceral aspect of the act of making and listening to music is inherently missing when the loudspeaker is used exclusively. Rhythm and amplitude to a certain extent were controlled by Tim's manipulation of real time parameters and partly by the characteristics of the objects themselves. In the mean time as"Whackmeister" Perkis madly twiddled knobs, I ran around trying to make sure my little whackers were hitting their mark.
robot 1 Amp per solenoid channel with Robert Marsanyi HMSL based
instruments remaps midi note events to solenoid note num. = whacker #
vel=period and intensity of hit The HUB CD on artifact cut 5 "whackers"
Notes from CD:
The whackers are a number of individual solenoids or relays that have the capability of whacking or (?JH)string objects in their proximity when told to do so by a computer. In this case they were arranged next to an entire gallery, the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, full of large sound sculpture objects designed by Tom Nunn and Bob B. Hobbs. These sculptural objects were things such as large suspended sheets of steel with brass rods welded to them, a piano harp, a suspended automobile fuel tank, a circular sheet of steel suspended on balloons, and others. The development of the whackers grew out of the notion that some visceral aspect of the act of making and listening to music is inherently missing when the loudspeaker is used exclusively. Rhythm and amplitude to a certain extent were controlled by Tim's manipulation of real time parameters and partly by the characteristics of the objects themselves. In the mean time as"Whackmeister" Perkis madly twiddled knobs, I ran around trying to make sure my little whackers were hitting their mark.
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