Endangered Guitar

Photo: Ashok Mehta

Endangered Guitar Max/MSP Patch

Guitar-Controlled Live Sound Processing

The Endangered Guitar is a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, an interactive hybrid between a guitar and a computer. The software “listens” to the playing, to then determine the parameters of the live sound processing.

The guitar is the sound source, but the same sound is also used to control the software. Sounds of the guitar are processed in realtime, pitch and various other parameters of the actual playing serve as control source of the processing. Additional control sources are a proximity sensor and accelerometer data from the iPhone.

Current projects sometimes use sound input from other players to be processed, but the live sound processing is still controlled by guitar sounds.

Hybrid Instrument Versions 2000s

Pre-Computer Versions 1990s

Hybrid Instrument Videos 2000s