Skintimacy is an project designed to ‘explore interpersonal boundaries through musical interactions’.
The work, by Alexander Müller, Jochen Fuchs & Konrad Röpke, translates skin on skin touches into sound:
With ‘Skintimacy’ we present a skin-based interface for a collaborative musical performance.
The experimental setup is intended to be both an evocative tool for interpersonal interaction and touch, as well as an alternative digital musical instrument. By integrating the human skin and touch into the musician-computer interface, we propose a bodily-close haptic and emotional experience.
Lucky Dragons does this in their live set..
One most efficiently realized versions of making the body an instrument I’ve seen. Seems like it’d be awful for any repeatable melodic music, but fantastic for more abstract work, or even a movie score.
Thanks for posting!
First experiments with this interface can be found on this video: http://vimeo.com/37367946
An DIY kit (open source) will be available in autumn 2012.
For those who are interested in participating in that research project… a Skintimacy-Kit can be ordered via the website http://www.skintimacy.org