Hello!

I’m excited to finally get this out there! I made a video series on the Floors, how they work, and using them for music. This series is made for a broad audience of those outside the ‘new instrument design’ community, and also composers, designers and players of these sensor/gesture based instruments.

The first 7 videos in this series cover varied elements of design - working with this instrument. Short demonstrative performance vignettes follow on both the Floors and the Table Floors (a prototype of a mini controller allowing for pressure-based performance with the same internal mappings). The third of these videos captures a surprise (one of those things that are affordances of each particular moment in any one room or place or setup; the things that come and then you find them and pull on that thread and other doors are opened to you). There are transcripts presented with the videos, with links to writing and works that go into further detail about the subject of each video.

I was excited to keep this in the series, because even though it is the only unplanned added segment, it most clearly shows the process that every element has developed through in the past 10 years. The final videos are two additional demonstrations, showing the computer of the instrument: the action to sound mapping and control of samples/loops with max via the gestural controller. I am excited about bringing people into the process of DMI design AND sharing the particularities that don't get as much space in the traditional space of sharing work process with bespoke DMIs.

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It was really a useful process for me to make this, to clarify my own findings and understanding. As often found, when trying to explain it to someone else, things we've learned come into clear focus. The process of making a series with these elements separated itself, like the first draft of a (/in this case, the book i'm trying to write....glacially slow!! sigh), exciting, clarifying, rewarding, and bigger than I thought).

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The series is hosted here on my website // youtube, with transcripts of each video and extra details!! the recent articles cover further detail on each area, and the music out there demonstrates the possibilities I've found with this instrument

Hope you have fun with this series and that there’s something you can use in there for each of you (:

Happy watching!

Iran xo

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