Ribbon 2.0

Instrument microtonal, inspirat en el theremin o l’ondes martenot. El so és produit per un to continu (un to pur, o d’ona quadrada o dent de serra filtrades) modulat per l’intèrpret. amb la ma esquerra es controla el to i la dinàmica. El moviment longitudinal modifica el to de forma continua (no quantitzat a semitons). […]

Convolver

Per mitjà de tècniques de convolució, permet usar el so d’un micrófono para excitar sonss (samples de discos) de manera similar a com ho faria una reverb. Pots “excitar” la música colpejant o rascant superficies, o usar la veu per “cantar” els samples.

Dub-o-matic

Sampling is a way to take a section or even a completed track and repurpose it in a way to make it fresh. Dub-o-matic is an instrument inspired in that techniques , popularized by DJs and producers around the birth of Dub and hip hop.

Exposant instruments a l’Arts Santa Mònica

Xinxetofon

Inspirat en instruments com l’Omnichord, la idea del Xinxetofon és que fos un instrument harmònic fàcil de tocar, que els algoritmes interns subleixin el coneixement musical del qui el toca,

Samplematic

Samplematic is an instrument that uses 3 wavetables sufficiently versatile to be used as a loop, oscillator or LFO according to the number of samples and the speed of reproduction, and the exploration of complex interactions between them.

Històries elèctriques

An electronic music show for kids and youngsters featuring self-made instruments and performative illustration (live animation).

TubaVox

Ondes Sackbut

A monophonic instrument with which the pitch and dynamics are controlled with one hand and the timbre is modified with the other, to give the instrument a solo character, which recalls an opera singer

Wordsland

  We made an artistic installations for a unique BMW night.  

Interactive Freak Mirror

Interactive Installation to make people project themselves in a Magic Mirror, thanks to Kinect, your movements will be detected and you be turned into funny animated Freak Emoticon.

Wú’s Teatrillu goes to Hell

Several members of the Wú Collective (http://wucollective.com) took part in an interpretation of Dante’s Inferno, on May 17, 2014, at the old Fabra i Coats textile factory. We were invited by Barcelona’s Insectotròpics theatre troupe

Rec/Play

Our main focus this week, however, was a performance on Saturday (November 9), with New York-based sonic artist Thessia Machado. This was at Homesession, a small art loft in the Poble Sec neighbourhood.

Teatrillu

El Teatrillu (small theater) is a framework of interactive techniques for performing arts. A toolkit to mix theater, visual art, puppeteering, juggling, magic, story-telling, stop-motion, animation, … It’s a real-time interactive stage where real actors dive into a not-so-real world.  

The Hub

Aquesta peça està inspirada en la League of Automatic Composers, la primera networked band (finals dels 70), en la que els dispositius musicals de cada participant eren capaços d’enviar-se dades els uns als altres per modificar el seus comportaments.

Amb Insectotropics a la Moritz

This past Tuesday we were invited, by the Insectotròpics theatre troupe, to participate in an event presenting the Programa Suport a la Creació 2013 (production grants) from FiraTàrrega (an international performing and street arts festival in Tàrrega, Catalunya).

Sonar 2013

Després del nostre concert amb tablets Asus d’ahir al SonarComplex, avui és el torn de la nostra demo al Hands on Area de Sónar+D, a les 17:00. Als que vingueu us oferirem la possibilitat de participar activament en una sessió de La Roda, tocant amb nosaltres les Apps que hem programat per a cadascun dels instruments. Les interfícies de La Roda […]

Clix Redux

versió lliure de CliX, de GeWang(l’actual director de la Stanford Laptop Orchestra). Originàriament una obra per “teclejadors compulsius”, on les tecles es mapegen a freqüències segons llur codi ASCII,

6Pianos

  una peça-demostració d’una nova interfície que hem estat preparant per tocar peces basades en patrons repetitius, en principi feta a mida dels requeriments de SixPianos(1973) de Steve Reich,

loops & feedback loops

San Taub y Wú:: nos proponen una improvisación basada en el estudio de la retroalimentación entre sistemas audiovisuales.

Baby Laptop Orchestra

Originaly concieved as a workshop for Sonar Kids, in CosmoCaixa, we are currently developing new instruments for kids, that explore interactiviy between music and visual arts. 

Sonar 2011

 Us convidem a tots a un esdeveniment molt especial per nosaltres que tindrà lloc el proper dijous 16 de juny a les 13h: un concert simultani (!) al Liceu i al festival Sònar. La meitat de l’Orquestra actuarem a la Sala Foyer del Liceu en el marc de la tercera edició de la Network Performing Arts […]

Llum a la veu

Singer Mariona Sagarra asked us to join her for a performance. We developed a small app to be able to paint and let the painting become alive with animation.

Installations @ Café Royale

Projects and experiments for interactive installations using Kinect sensor with Openframewokrs.  Commissioned by Visual Royale (Café Royale). Interactive Installation for the entrance to Cafe Royale. Newton’s Relativist Nightmare   Dancing Boxer or Boxing Dancer.

Nuvolet

An audio-visual instrument. Play a sound cloud with body gestures. Specially developed for the concert of Sons del Sud, a collaboration between Barcelona Laptop Orchestra and Institut Goethe.

La Roda

La Roda is a multi-player instrument.  It’s a turn-based acumulative sound-editing engine. Based on the chinese whispers game, it was conceived as a collective improvisational tool.  

VCloner

An audio-visual sampler/loopstation.  Audio and video are captured in real-time and samples are handled through an interface or with an external remote controller via ethernet.

Mastegador de Crooners

Video sampler, interactive video controller or interactive movie device, it was thought as an instrument to make dead singers sing again.

D_scratch

Digital turntable. This was born from the need of some kind of device to scratch digital audio on stage, that was easy to carry along and that did not depend on the hardware available at the gig site.