Textile Based Synth

Textile Based Synth from lara grant on Vimeo.

"Showing at Devotion Gallery on August 2nd at 7pm in Brooklyn!
Along with past and present felt designs.
https://m.facebook.com/events/640142289329927/
areyoudevoted.com"

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NIME 2012 - FSP class "Soft Circuitry and Synthesizers"

NIME 2012 - FSP class "Soft Circuitry and Synthesizers" from lara grant on Vimeo.

This is a video of one of our workshop participants making a din with their microsynth, and a couple of the soft, felted, conductive sensors we had everyone make. These sensors connect to the synth hardware for controlling the frequency of the pitch and also for jumping the signal around the breadboard for creating feedback loops and signal modulations.

More video: https://vimeo.com/laragrant

Soft Circuitry With Mini Synth

Soft Circuitry With Mini Synth from lara grant on Vimeo.

"This soft interface is made from metallic wools, Velostat (a resistive material), conductive fabrics, sheep's wool and acrylic craft felt.

It is connected to the circuit with snaps soldered to wires and alligator clips.
The circuit is comprised of 2 oscillators using the 4093 IC, piped through a distortion filter built using the 4049 and then out through the 4040, a 12 stage binary counter, it has 12 outputs, each dividing the source by 2.

Four of the twelve outputs from the counter IC are taken onto the soft interface using snaps to wire and mixed using a felted patch cord of sheep and metallic wool.

One oscillator is controlled by a force sensing resistor made from Velostat and conductive fabric.
Oscillator number two is controlled by a felted sculptural potentiometer, one side of the spike is a needle felted bronze trace, the opposite side is Velostat. You connect the two through your body by wearing stretchy conductive fabric over the tips and touching both sides at once.
Your body naturally has a high resistance, so you mainly get slow oscillation and hear low tones.

Each of the two oscillators have a control pin, they turn on and off based on if that pin is set to high or low. Each oscillator's outputs are feeding into the other's control pin, so you can turn one off and on, by touching the other."

Related posts:
Sarah & Lara Grant's Felt Based Modular Synth Design & Sound Processing
Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Interface with Piezo

Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Interface with Piezo

Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Interface with Piezo from lara grant on Vimeo.

"A soft circuit interface designed for students to learn from using the LilyPad Arduino, 8 ohm piezo speaker, 2 soft momentary switches and a soft potentiometer. Programmed using the Tone() function and playing with the delay() function to achieve different tempos.
This was built for my 2 day workshop at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts "Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Arduino"
There is a second video where I record this same interface, the only difference is I use the LilyPad buzzer, the buzzer is softer but I thought it helpful to post both for comparison."

Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Interface with Buzzer from lara grant on Vimeo.

"A soft circuit interface designed for students to learn from using the LilyPad Arduino, LilyPad buzz speaker, 2 soft momentary switches and a soft potentiometer. Programmed using the Tone() function and playing with the delay() function to achieve different tempos.
This was built for my 2 day workshop at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts "Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Arduino"
There is a second video where I record this same interface, the only difference is I use a 8 ohm piezo, the piezo is louder but I thought it helpful to post both for comparison."

Sarah & Lara Grant's Felt Based Modular Synth Design & Sound Processing

FSP005 Prototype from lara grant on Vimeo.

"What you are seeing is a prototype of FSP005, this is one module that will be part of a collection, making up a wall mounted soft musical interface. The interface is made out of merino wool felt, yarn, elastic and conductive thread, and snaps. The sound is being created by a modified gated oscillator circuit, AKA the siqque-est sounding circuit known to FSP.
Fsp.fm"

FSP005 Prototype - HQ sound from lara grant on Vimeo.

"A second recording of this circuit, which is def my favorite so far. Now you can hear the lowest frequencies and full texture of the sound being produced.
What you are seeing is a prototype of FSP005, this is one module that will be part of a collection, making up a wall mounted, soft musical interface. The interface is made out of merino wool felt, yarn, elastic and conductive thread, and snaps. The sound is being created by interacting with the soft variable resistor that is hooked up to a modified gated oscillator circuit, AKA the siqque-est sounding circuit known to FSP.
Fsp.fm"

FSP005 - divider circuit feeding into pre amp from lara grant on Vimeo.

"testing cords made with higher resistance and greater range."

More details here (see the rest of their site for more). Also see this excellent write-up on Rhizome.

"For those who may want to learn soft circuitry in person, the Grants will be giving a workshop during the upcoming In/Out Fest happening on September 17th and 18th at the Tank in New York City [previous post]. The subject of their workshop is textiles and electronics, and they will be teaching various techniques of soft circuitry while instructing participants on how to connect the textile to a circuit."

via thier site: "Sarah and Lara are a sisterly team with interests in physical computing, electronic textiles, controller design and signal processing.

Lara has a background in fashion and textile design and is currently studying at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Sarah has a background in visual arts, programming and sound design. She is also an alumni of NYU ITP."

Circuit Bending Orchestra: Lara Grant at Diana Eng's Fairytale Fashion Show, Eyebeam NYC / SML from See-ming Lee 李思明 SML on Vimeo.

"Lara Grant, part of the circuit bending orchestra for Diana Eng's Fairytale Fashion Show held at Eyebeam NYC. Through various hacks and circuit bending techniques, Lara's sewing machine trigger signals that is then fed onto laptops running MAX/MSP to produce the final soundtrack for the runway. Other team members of the orchestra are Peter Kirn and Matt Ganucheau.

Lara and Sarah are a sisterly team with interests in physical computing, electronic textiles, controller design and signal processing.

Lara has a background in fashion and textile design and is currently studying at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Sarah has a background in visual arts, programming and sound design. She is also an alumni of NYU ITP.

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Fairytale Fashion Show
2010-02-24
7pm - 9pm
Eyebeam

Diana Eng presented the Fairytale Fashion Collection in a technology fashion show on Wed., February 24, 7PM, at Eyebeam. Models hit the runway while an orchestra of circuit bending DJs create music from hacked video game consoles.

The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an educational tool that teaches about science, math, and technology through fashion. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.

Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by mechanical engineering. She is a designer from Bravos Emmy nominated TV show, Project Runway season 2 and author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Diana is cofounder of NYC Resistor hacker group. Diana is currently a resident artist at Eyebeam.

eyebeam.org/​events/​fairytale-fashion-show
fairytalefashion.org

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