VICTORIA COUNTS – A CASE STUDY WITH ELECTRONIC VIOLIN BOW
Knut Guettler, Hans Wilmers, Johnson · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2009
This paper gives a glimpse into the ongoing process of equipping a violin bow (as well as the violin itself) with electronics adequate for real-time manipulation of the sound.In this project there exist several sound sources:(1) the violin sound, which is picked up by built-in microphones of the electric violin, (2) a number of prerecorded everyday sounds to be cued in by the performer during performance, and (3) several pre-recorded series of counting, where the performer's voice is heard.Controlled by bow gestures these different sounds are filtered through one or more Max/MSP patches followed by playback through a quadraphonic speaker system.From time to time permutations of objects between speakers, including the movement on stage by the performer herself, take place.