what is the Silhouette Sport?
The SILHOUETTE SPORT is an innovative audiovisual synthesizer that transforms visuals and motion to sound and rhythm. The interdisciplinary approach liberates the inherent connection between various senses and actions like seeing, moving and listening. To play along these intersections wakes basic intuitions and leads to a widespread field of cross-sensual beauty, poetry and joy.
The SPORT has a camera on board, and it is portable: Ready to search and find visuals in the outside world to play with - dance like. It can also load picture and movie files. The special "Vimpler" ("visual sampler") function closes the audiovisual circuit: Incoming audio gets transformed to a picture, ready for artistic sound resynthesis.
The SILHOUETTE SPORT is invented and build by German musician and artist Pit Przygodda, and it is the new smaller-in-size-and-prize sprout in the SILHOUETTE synthesizer family and joins the bigger SILHOUETTE EINS (2021).
Hard and Software
The SPORT uses a Raspberry Pi 4. The 9 encoders are mounted on PCBs connected to a frame, and being read by an Arduino. The monitor is a touchscreen. The Audio and MIDI interface is under construction. Several solutions are under discussion and testing. The housing is made of wood, the handholds left and right are solid steel. The Knobs are made of silver aluminium. The software is written under the Pure Data Environment.
Technical Features
- audiovisual sound synthesis ("Silhouette Synthesis")
- visually created audio waves (timbres)
- visually controlled sequences
- motion transfer between visuals and sound
- real time action
- readable visual inputs: camera, picture and movie files
- "Vimpler" function: audio-to-picture-to-audio
- implemented swiveling camera
- optional light-table for perfect silhouettes
- mobile use (rechargeable battery inside)
- 9 encoder PETG controller layered on the monitor
- touch screen
- small touch keyboard for drone pads
- 4 voice
- 4 LFOs
- 2 EGs
- 5 self creatable modulation waves
- innovative concept, intuitive use
- surprising and inspiring new soundscapes
- exciting new possibilities by future software updates
- lots of fun and joy
- Dimensions: SPORT: 31,5x19x10cm;
on Light-Table: 33x19,5x25,5cm; Case: 45x36x14cm
- Weight: ca. 4 kg
