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The instrument is also accompanied by interactive visuals, designed by artist Miguel Ceballos, that respond to the gestures and sound environments created while Yemas is used live.The team cites experimental musician and composition professor Jaime Oliver's Silent Drum as inspiration for the device, which is admittedly very similar. Whereas Oliver used his machine to create experimental noise, Maistudio seems to be using their incarnation to yield more digestible music structures.We recently wrote about Evan Boehm's installation"Looking At A Horse"that used OpenFrameworks and facial recognition software to make a CGI horse appear more detailed as a bigger group was watching it. This isn't dissimilar from Ceballos' interactive visuals that accompany Yemas.Imagine if Boehm and Ceballos collaborated to make a live performance where the visual elements responded to both the musician touching the Yemas instrument and the size of the crowd watching the instrument being played? In this hypothetical development, two elements, community size and physical interaction, could inspire a color-fried projection to be experienced alongside the fattest electronic beats.
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