Category Archives: Made in the Max Lab

Blade Axe

By Sasha LeitmanMay 15, 2015InstrumentBuilding, Made in the Max Lab

by Romain Michon The Blade Axe is a physical modeling instrument that uses an ipad for all of the synthesis. It has gone through many iterations but the current version uses two piezo sensors to pick up the plucking for melody and chords. You can

Cetacant

By Sasha LeitmanMay 15, 2015Class Projects, InstrumentBuilding, Made in the Max Lab

byAlison Rush The cetacant is a musical instrument inspired by whales and designed to accompany a performance of Vela 6911, a piece by Victor Gama. The cetacant emulates features of the cetacean vocal apparatus, using tubes and chambers full of air, water, and oil to produce and amplify sounds. The attached photo is of

Spherical Mic

By Sasha LeitmanMay 15, 2015InstrumentBuilding, Made in the Max Lab, Visting Artists

Here is the abstract for a talk about the spherical mic that its creators will be presenting at the Acoustical Society of America. An open-source spherical microphone array design. John Granzow, Tim O’Brien, Darrell Ford, Yoo H. Yeh, Yoomi Hur (CCRMA, Stanford Univ., 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA 94305, granzow@ccrma.stanford.edu), Darius Mostowfi (Sigma Eng.,