Amorphone, resonant instruments interfaced to the pc.

Amorphone is the name of the musical instrument created by Yoshio Machida, to make even live its particular compositions of pre-recorded sounds, expressed in a series of releases entitled 'Hypernatural' and designed to be viewed comfortably in listening rooms or galleries 'art. The Amorphone has a stamp very similar to that of a gong and can be used, as well as a tool in its own right, also as the source for eleborazioni more sound samples programmed through the use of software Max / MSP on a laptop. The steel concave structure is modulated by Machida, with influences ranging from traditional Indian music to the African Kalimba. On site you can enjoy short clips of some of the performances carried out by Machida in different cities, listening to the live sounds that manages to pull out of his car interfaced to the PC, making it resonate and reshaping synthetically sounds concerned.