A Digitally Augmented Medievil Instrument
This was a wonderful project that came out of a proposal from Musikmuseet in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
We addressed their desire for increased visitor interaction by building a replica of an instrument in their collection that the public could play. The instrument we chose was slightly taller than the average double bass, had only one string, and sounded like a trumpet: The Tromba Marina.
We made the instrument more playable by feeding sound from the bridge, electronically, back into the body. We also simulated the sound made by the instrument’s vibrating bridge using pure data.
Great fun.
