Collaborative project with Hunter Hiscock
Instruments have existed for almost as long as humans, yet their shapes have stayed similar for thousands of years. However, in the past decades, the birth of electro-acoustic music allowed instruments to evolve in shape and musical expression.
This project triggered, for us, the desire to explore and play around with sound and electronics, as well as questioning how could we rethink instruments as a whole. Our interest went towards questioning our interaction with instruments. How should this interaction be like ? Should the interaction be only through knobs, buttons,..or should the user interact with a daily object in a complete new approach ?
This last question gave birth to Innowave. Instruments could be anywhere. All the nowadays kitchen appliances produce their own music. The fridge purrs, the oven hums, the dishwasher stammers, the gas stove crackles.
Innowave was firstly conceived with the idea of creating a instrumental kitchen, composed of different appliances, although compatible to play together during the kitchen daily scene.
The final prototype of Innowave consists in a analog Moog synthesiser incorporated in a discarded microwave shell. For us, the relation between the sound created and the instrument had to be put in emphasis, to create a sort of personification of the microwave. How would a microwave resonate if it could communicate through sounds ?
Does Innowave sound like a microwave to you ?
This last question gave birth to Innowave. Instruments could be anywhere. All the nowadays kitchen appliances produce their own music. The fridge purrs, the oven hums, the dishwasher stammers, the gas stove crackles.
Innowave was firstly conceived with the idea of creating a instrumental kitchen, composed of different appliances, although compatible to play together during the kitchen daily scene.
The final prototype of Innowave consists in a analog Moog synthesiser incorporated in a discarded microwave shell. For us, the relation between the sound created and the instrument had to be put in emphasis, to create a sort of personification of the microwave. How would a microwave resonate if it could communicate through sounds ?
Does Innowave sound like a microwave to you ?
Instrumental kitchen concept :
Exhibited at Worm Rotterdam - 29th February 2020
Dutch Design Week 2020
