The samchillian – a musical instrument based on relativity.
Eitan Shefer’s graduation project from the Bezalel academy of art and design. eshefer.com An electronic musical instrument which takes Leon Gruenbaum’s samchillian concept and defines a possible product design for it. The challenge was to make an aesthetic, ergonomic, musical product which could be used on stage by a musician. the samchillian is a new type of musical instrument which uses the concept of relative notes, rather then fix pitches (as in a piano). http The film was made by Eitan …
Look at the video responses, there is a working prototype.
This is something I’ve thought about considerably. It wouldn’t be too incredibly hard to produce. And it would bring a new realm of intellectual expansion to the art of music. Send me one when you start producing it
Make things NOT bulshit!
this is stupid!
it increases the load on the user.
great concept!!… too bad you haven created a working prototype… that 1 was just a model..
lol……..
THIS is the right question…
Cool thing! O_o Try to use it with Kontakt 2 and Prominy SC Eletric Guitar or Fender Metal Thrash guitar sample library. Thant will be more cooler. (W) ^_^ (W) Arghhh! Searh for it on youtube.
Fucking Koo00oooL ! !
wow 0_0
you can’t detect sarcasm from plain text too easily, there’s no tone of voice.
yeah but if you’re playing this thing you’d get good relative pitch, so any mistakes could be compensated for. Also even if you didn’t have good relative pitch it would be no differn’t than fumbling around on the piano trying to find the right note.
ohh so u didnt actually make it… just thought of it
i was being sarcastic…
As good as I am? I’ve never even held one of these things.
I’m just saying, it’s not going to be much harder than any other instrument to practice with-it’s just not a beginner’s instrument.
this would be a pain to practice with is what im trying to say… youd have to know the piece and the instrument very well in order to get back on track from a missed note
not everyone is as good as you are with the thing
Again, not necessarily. If you weren’t sight-reading, you’d probably know the piece, and you’d be able to hear “Hey, I missed a note.”
Chances are, you’re probably only going to miss by one finger, so all you’d have to do is adjust one finger for the next note. Plus, there’s always the undo button if you really screw up that bad. It only goes back one note, but that doesn’t matter-any decently practiced musician will be able to tell that they’ve missed a note. You don’t need perfect pitch.
that would work yes… but you would have to know where you screwed up and by how much, unless of course you have perfect pitch
Not necessarily. If the user can think fast enough, they can simply compensate for the different in the next note.
For example, if they hit +2 instead of +1, and for the next note they would normally hit +3,they can hit +4 and hit the same note. Just like playing real piano or anything else, they only missed one note.
Check RHYTHMTANDEM for another rare instrument.
problem with this is… if you screw up one note, the entire piece is screwed up
If this ever comes out to the market I’m buying one guaranteed
this is awesome!
It basically changes the focus of music from the notes themselves to the spaces in between.
A musical instrument of the future.
Seems cool- But can it be used to play chords? Or is it just a solo instrument?