Sound space and spatial sampler

Abstract

The Spatial Sampler and the Sound Space are new musical instruments coming from the Synekine Project. This project involves performative and scientific researches for the creation of new ways to express ourselves. In a similar way a sampler is an empty box to be filled up with sound files, the Spatial Sampler turns the physical space around the performer as a key-area to place and to play his own voice samples. With the Sound Space, a performer literally spreads his voice around him by the gesture, creating an entire sound scene while playing with it. The gesture association of time and space makes these two instruments also suitable for dancers and body/movement artists, and for various applications.