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> Hi Matthias. I would guess that the idea of the MIDI Ball could >be applied in many different ways, including the way you have >proposed. I think that it would be great! I wonder if Tactex could >actually make a small handball out of their smartfabric. I know that >StarrLabs used small rubber balls (cut in half) in a custom >controller that they built. Although this is applied in a much >different fashion that what you have proposed, I think that the >precedent is already there. I just came back from a speach of a dance musician from Sao Paulo and somebody asked him about such trigger technologies. He said more or less: "The technology is simple and possibilities infinite, but when it comes to create art with it, what is it you want to control with the trigger? All approaches I have seen so far have been between grotesk and boring." Well, it took 20 years until the synthesizers became expressive and beautifull... and it was not so much due to improvement of the technology but players like Kit Watkins, Jan Hammer, Chick Corea... who learned to operate it. Did any of you see trigger controlled dance music that sounded more than just "interesting"? >> > Here's the link to the MIDI Ball: >>><http://home.earthlink.net/~sabean2/performance.html>Click here: >>>Performance Innovations If the clickable link doesn't work, the URL >>>is: >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~sabean2/performance.html >>> There's a good picture of the MIDI Ball on this page. Take care, >Marc >> >>looks nice... probably the triggers are wireless, not the MIDI >>signal... and it does not seem to be a comercial product. >>do you think this is artistically interesting? I guess the public >>just grabs on it as soon as it reaches it, so there is no expression >>exept eager... no? >>I had rather imagined the size of a hand ball, so a dancer can play >>with it and create rhythms, maybe melodic things by squeezing it... >> >>thank you for that inspiration anyway! -- ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org