Waterflower // Live @ Erica Synths Garage

Published on Nov 4, 2017 Erica Synths

"Waterflower performs live with vocals, using a Roland VT-3 voice transformer and a Boss RC-505 loopstation with pre-composed samples (ikaossilator, field recordings, CC0 found samples and MIDI), playing a Korg Microsampler keyboard with custom samples; 2x Dentaku Ototo capactive synthesizers connected to a plant as a keyboard; Korg Volca Keys; Crystal acrylic electric violin; Firestix Drumsticks.

'Waterflower ' is artist Sabine Moore’s audiovisual performance project. Sabine Moore’s intertwined music and visual presence is an audiovisual journey into a unique world where sound and moving image have come together like an orchestral ensemble. Musically, Waterflower draws upon genres like Electronica, Experimental Pop and Ambient. Her multi-layered compositions are created from sampled sounds like toy beeps, running water, glass beads, gardening tools, and are then mixed with synthesizers, orchestral sounds - like the violin, ghostly piano melodies and her sublime vocals. On stage, a live potted plant is transformed into a touch-sensitive synthesizer using capacitive sensors. A similar technique also allows a separate plant to also act as a real-time midi controller for the artist’s visuals. The video animations display themes such as nature, science and the interaction of the two. One could say that “Waterflower” is like a sci-fi journey to a world outside of our time-line."

Dentaku Ototo Musical Instrument Kit

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"Here's a brand new Ototo Musical Kit in the box with the manual. Got a for a gift but it was never used. Despite it being awesome. As the website says:

"Build a piano out of vegetables, make a plant sing or create a keyboard from aluminum foil. Connect anything conductive to Ototo using alligator clips and turn your touch into sound – the world is your musical oyster!"

Comes with:
• Ototo board.
• 12 alligator clips.
• Illustrated musical guide."

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Ototo

Ototo from Yuri Suzuki on Vimeo.

"OTOTO is a musical invention kit which allows anyone to quickly and easily create their own electronic musical instrument.
With OTOTO you can unpack the kit and make anything from a drum kit of saucepans to origami that sing when touched.

Designed by Yuri Suzuki and Dentaku

http://yurisuzuki.com/works/dentaku-ototo-2/"

Added a Yuri Suzuki channel label for these moving forward.  Yuri has actually been featured on the site numerous times in the past.

Ghostbusters meets Ototo

Published on Oct 20, 2014 Dentaku

"There was something strange in the Ototo lab this Halloween... Who you gonna call?

Connect anything conductive to Ototo using alligator clips and turn your touch into sound – the world is your musical oyster!"

Ototo: Make Music from Anything on Kickstarter

You might remember the Ototo from this post back in October. It is now on Kickstarter seeking funding.  Click through for full details including additional pics and the different kit options.  You can find their official site here: http://dentakulondon.com/ototo/.

"Ototo is an all-in-one musical invention kit which allows you to make an instrument any way you want.

It’s a small synthesiser which allows you to build instruments using conductive materials and simple electronic sensors. You can make sounds straight out of the box by touching the keys to trigger notes. By connecting conductive materials or objects to the keys on Ototo you can make them react to touch; turning anything you can imagine into an instrument.

How it works

All sounds are made up of three parts: loudness, pitch and the texture of the sound (timbre). Using Ototo you can control all three of these and create an expressive musical instrument or installation. The keys on the Ototo are arranged like one octave of a musical keyboard. When you connect an object to a key using crocodile clips, you can trigger that note on your object.

There are four sensor inputs which control the different elements of the sound, one each for pitch and loudness and two that control the texture of the sound. You can select from different styles of inbuilt synthesiser sounds using the buttons or connect up to a computer to control sounds via USB MIDI.

Ototo will work with any conductive material, so that's metal, organic materials, water and anything else that can hold an electrical current. Each material reacts slightly differently with Ototo, so it's good to try out them all!

Dentaku - Ototo Experimental PCB Based Synthesiser

Dentaku - Ototo from Broadway on Vimeo.

From the team that brought us Sound Chasers.

"Meet Ototo, an experimental printed circuit board (PCB), which, combining sensors, inputs and touchpads, allows you to easily create your own electronic musical instrument.

Designed by Dentaku, Ototo allows anyone to unpack a kit and make anything from drum sets out of saucepans to origami that sings when touched. Sign up for updates from Dentaku on Ototo http://dentakulondon.com/work/ototo/"

This is the first post to get the Dentaku channel label.   I added it to the Sound Chasers post as well.

Sound Chasers - Looks Like Music - Mudam 2013

Looks Like Music - Mudam 2013 from Yuri Suzuki on Vimeo.
Yuri Suzuki - Looks Like Music

http://www.mudam.lu/en/expositions/details/exposition/yuri-suzuki/
Mudam Publics Summer Project
For its summer project, Mudam’s Publics Department invited the Japanese creator Yuri Suzuki to conceive Looks Like Music, an audiovisual installation based on his work Colour Chaser. This consists of a miniature robot which detects and follows a circuit – a black line traced in marker pen – interspersed with coloured reference points that the device translates in sound. The public is invited to actively contribute to the development of the installation in the exhibition space by extending the circuit drawn on paper. Visitors thus participate in the creation of a large-scale artwork and enrich a collectively composed sound piece. A series of events and workshops accompanies the project during the month of August.

Curated by Nadine Erpelding
Production by Dentaku Ltd
Sound Programming by Mark McKeague


Colour Chasers Test from Yuri Suzuki on Vimeo.
For Mudam Looks Like Music show

http://yurisuzuki.com/news/looks-like-music-at-mudam/

Mudam’s Publics Department invited the Japanese creator Yuri Suzuki to conceive Looks Like Music, an audiovisual installation based on his work Colour Chaser. This consists of a miniature robot which detects and follows a circuit – a black line traced in marker pen – interspersed with coloured reference points that the device translates in sound. The public is invited to actively contribute to the development of the installation in the exhibition space by extending the circuit drawn on paper. Visitors thus participate in the creation of a large-scale artwork and enrich a collectively composed sound piece. A series of events and workshops accompanies the project during the month of August.


Colour Chaser in Serpentine Gallery 2012 from Yuri Suzuki on Vimeo.
Colour Chaser in Serpentine Gallery 2012

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/

yurisuzuki.com