Working with Squamish artist Tif! Shen who has constructed a giant LED heart controlled by stethoscope picking up heart beats. Seeing if I can add ECG heartbeat tracking on a dancer to control lighting. Thanks to Research Assistant Danielle Lee.
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for WooSIE flute (Woodwind Sensing for Interactive Environments), samples, processing, and Max/MSP.
Video premiere NIME26 — New Interfaces for Music 2026 conference, June 24-26, 2026, London, UK.
Paulo Bortolussi: WooSIE flute.
The WooSIE flute has sensors on five of its keys, which wirelessly send touch and pressure data to my laptop to control realtime audio processing, sample triggering, software changes, and section control in the music.
More spine work with Daniel’s ESP32 coding
July 11, 2024: Paolo Bortolussi demonstrates sample playback, recording, looping, and processing control using the current WooSIE system
Development continues!
Latest WooSIE system on a Haynes flute
Dancer Emmalena Fredriksson at Burning Man 2023, wearing one of our spines as part of Ecdysis. Music: F. Górecki; Costume design, Alaia Hamer; Interactive LED spine, Daniel Tsui, Bob Pritchard. Photo by Hadis Fard.
