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# Theometrica
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/theometrica/
- Published: 2014-01-28T12:33:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:10.000Z
- Description: Looking like an acupunctured vinyl player, a spinning disc fixed with pins is the base for a new sound sculpture
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Music, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Looking a little like a cross between a darts board and a record player, [Theometrica](http://a-plusplus.com/?p=157&ref=protein.xyz) is inspired by the traditional Chinese medicine practice of acupuncture. The instrument, or sound interface, creates and controls sounds in real time, sounds that are generated by fixed pins in a spinning disk.  
  
Beyond its cultural dimension the sculpture is meant to create a space for sound events based on different geometrical arrangement of the pins. The development of the prototype composed of 99 prepared pins, a distance sensor and a software using Max/MSP, constitutes the kick-off of a research project dedicated to the correlation between geometry, probability and sound synthesis generation with an emphasis on performance.   
  
The installation by Oscar Palou and Alexander Müller-Rakow was recently on display in Berlin at the [Designtransfer](http://www.designtransfer.udk-berlin.de/en/?ref=protein.xyz) space, a cross-disciplinary gallery run by the Berlin University of Art UdK.   
  
Projects featuring alternative sound generation and the translation of music into a tangible experience have been cropping quite frequently recently, just take a look at ideas such as [Synaesynth](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/12/synaesynth?ref=protein.xyz) and [Tingle](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/12/tingle?ref=protein.xyz).

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