Video MIDI Harp Guitar

MIDI harp guitar controlling audio and video simultaneously. The harp guitar has six segmented, tunable "strings" and four touch sensors that swap between tunings/patches. The audio comes from Sampler in Ableton live (electric guitar sampled clean and then run through Guitar Rig 3), and the video is bits of "prince of darkness"/stuff I made in quartz composer, sequenced in Live via the locator method discussed in my other videos. The idea, of course, is to run it through a projector, blind you, and distract you from the fact that I'm talentless. Just kidding.

None of the "related" videos are that related, but if you've never seen a real harp guitar check out:

Michael Hedges:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKB8zG5qP0
Some guy with a beautiful "modern"(?) harp guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqeyvKQKEq0
A harp guitar that auto tunes with the tech from the Gibson robot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98I808GSGQk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• harp
• ableton
• live
• midi
• microcontroller
• parallax
• sx28
• video
• sequencer
• sampler
• electronic

[ThePotterman10]

Your comp is spazzin out in the background. Lol.

[db3ll]

@ThePotterman10: Controlled spazzing- the guitar is controlling the video on the computer; each note on the bass strings corresponds to a different video clip.

[StopTheMoti0n]

man. that is creepy, dark, and frightening. it is beautiful.

[briguylf11]

awesome!

[sillymonkey829]

@db3ll Jeebus Crisco! Is that a Yamaha Nippon Gakki G series? It looks a lot like my guitar (a Yamaha NO. G-50) minus the harp part, of course :'(

[celtichero9]

This was beyond FANTASTIC!!!!

God Bless

[AustinTCV]

Jason Hale?

[joelkeaton]

dude did you make that?! that is awesome!

[drunktastic]

Awesome.

[BreshDigitalTV]

VERY COOL Wildman!