Art Statement

For the work, Notations, viewers can pluck the interactive mechanical instrument to instantly compose music and produce clefs on the projection screen.  The clefs on the screen appropriate from the ancient clefs used in Gregorian Chants of the 15th century.  Composed of these ancient clefs and tabs, each note is presented through squares, belonging to unaccompanied monophonic music clefs.  The interactive mechanical instrument creates clefs using Arduino, Adafruit, Processing, Max/MSP, Bluetooth, LED, 3D printing,  acrylic, and metal tubes, enabling viewers to instantly play the instrument on-site and produce various clefs.  The music generated is instantly converted into the correct clefs, which are projected onto the screen.  When there are no viewers present, it will automatically play and present the sounds and clefs previously created by viewers, expressing the digital aesthetics of interactive technology and collaborative creation of clefs, and imbuing digital mechanical instruments with more cultural and musical qualities.

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