The samchillian - a musical instrument based on relativity.



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Eitan Shefer's graduation project from the Bezalel academy of art and design.
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An electronic musical instrument which takes Leon Gruenbaum's samchillian concept and defines a possible product design for it. The challenge was to make an aesthetic, ergonomic, musical product which could be used on stage by a musician.
the samchillian is a new type of musical instrument which uses the concept of relative notes, rather then fix pitches (as in a piano).
http://samchillian.com
The film was made by Eitan Shefer in a collaboration with motion graphics wizard Eric Lerner.
http://www.ericlerner.com


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What does the "UN" ... ( 8 months ago by Dracopol)
What does the "UN" key do?
("Now a true dyed-in-the-wool killer would have asked about the little red button..." --THE FIFTH ELEMENT)
2 things 1.How much ... ( 7 months ago by octive1994)
2 things 1.How much is it? 2. where can i get one?
çizgi filim ... ( 7 months ago by 2144972canee)
çizgi filim kahramanları
wow,,,,it looks ... ( 7 months ago by randalik)
wow,,,,it looks interesting....is your invent?
thanks for the song of the pillow book...i'm going to download it, bye!
Pretty dang kewl. ( 7 months ago by DannyBurgoyne)
Pretty dang kewl.
It undoes the ... ( 6 months ago by InfinitySquared)
It undoes the previous modulation. So if you'd just gone up two steps, it goes back down two steps.
i can not beleive ... ( 6 months ago by upward23)
i can not beleive my eyes it so awesome!!!
second ( 5 months ago by gccoley)
second
The original was ... ( 5 months ago by gccoley)
The original was polyphonic.
Wow. That is ... ( 5 months ago by daytonadiscdriver)
Wow. That is perfect. You thought of everything. That is something I would be sooooo proud of if it was my invention.
BTW: Does it work you "abs" too? ;)
i want 1 ( 4 months ago by upward23)
i want 1
haha that last ... ( 4 months ago by thommotheyobbo)
haha that last comment made me laugh ^_^
what a shame that ... ( 4 months ago by defdeezy)
what a shame that it seems to promise so much versatility, yet stays within the realm of western keys.
fun to play gay to ... ( 4 months ago by sayanythingkicksass)
fun to play gay to watch in a concert
Interesting concept ... ( 3 months ago by evanASF27)
Interesting concept for an instrument... but one has to wonder: just how you'd write music for that?
With ordinary instruments (piano, guitar, tuba) they've fixed notes on a staff. The Samchillian is based on numbers and physical motion (I.E. the thumb controls) so how would one write a sheet of music for something like that?
Not saying it's a bad idea... just curious.
playing from ... ( 3 months ago by eshefer)
playing from standard notation is nearly impossible.
I tend to do more freestyle solo improvisation, and for this you don't really need notation anyway.
the notation I tend to use, when I need to, represents the relative changes (IE the numbers) between the notes.
the motion sensing bit is not that hard to notate (you could use a graph reprisenting the values for example) - but I never found a need to notate that aspect of performance.
Very interesting. ... ( 3 months ago by evanASF27)
Very interesting. Heh, I thought this was a more improv-centric instrument. As for the sheet music style you mentioned, I'd love to see something like that (out of curiosity mainly). I'm a trumpet player myself, so different styles of printing music facinate me.
Thanks for the reply.
alternate scales is ... ( 3 months ago by eshefer)
alternate scales is just a matter of probramming them into the software. Leon's software alwredy supports pentatonic, as well as other non-standard scales such as a 20 and 40 notes per octave scales. I don't use them much, but it's doable.
hey, you want some ... ( 3 months ago by mainstreams)
hey, you want some professional musician to test it? ;)
where can i get one ... ( 2 months ago by jdewn1961)
where can i get one please
Seems cool- But can ... ( 2 months ago by thadeusmac)
Seems cool- But can it be used to play chords? Or is it just a solo instrument?
A musical ... ( 3 weeks ago by oufenhous)
A musical instrument of the future.
It basically ... ( 3 weeks ago by Synsacrus)
It basically changes the focus of music from the notes themselves to the spaces in between.
problem with this ... ( 6 days ago by tyran424)
problem with this is... if you screw up one note, the entire piece is screwed up




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