Line / Shape / Form - for computer extended electric guitar

Line / Shape / Form is a solo improvisational performance project using the Eighth Nerve Guitar, a custom electric guitar that has a range of sensors built into the body and neck of the instrument. This interactive system uses physical sensors along with an array of real-time audio stream analysis data to control a range of computer-based digital signal processing transformations. This performance systems leverages a variety of unique hardware and software design strategies, all geared specifically towards improvisational performance. By combining a tactile, playable sound source with a dynamic interactive software system, the immediacy and richness of the guitar is extended by the power and flexibility of computation. This hybrid design, using physical sensors, generative strategies, audio stream analysis, and complex routing and mapping, creates an unpredictable, complex yet playable improvisational instrument

video recording from live performance
ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Tempe, AZ (2019)