[ELECTRON] Matthew Herbert’s One Pig

[Donna Holford-Lovell]

Dear All 

this maybe of interest 


An amazing chance to see Matthew Herbert’s One Pig along with the “Sty Harp”, built and performed by Edinburgh-based artist Yann Seznec. http://theamazingrolo.net/styharp/

Following on from Herbert’s 2011 album of the same name, One Pig tells the story of a “single farm animals life, from birth to plate, in an otherwise anonymous food chain.” Composing the sounds of an animal’s life cycle and ultimate consumption into a musical portrait, Matthew Herbert’s “One Pig” is a grotesque sentimental rock opera.

Historically music has been created by using animal parts, gut stringed instruments and pig skin drums but by dissecting obsolete, forgotten technology Yann has been able to make an effective, expressive instrument.

The main component of the StyHarp is the string sensors, which are ripped from Gametrak controllers. These gadgets are a sort of proto-Kinect, designed for PCs and game consoles. Yann used 12 controller innards and an Arduino with a mux shield to handle the 36 analog inputs at once, which converted them into MIDI and sent them over to Ableton. Within a 'pig sty' installation the instruments climax happens when it builds a huge sound wall to symbolise the end of the pig.

for more info and tickets see 

https://tickets.dundeerep.co.uk/public/show.asp

best Donna 

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