The project that brought me to OSC is to create a MIDI Guitar Controller that authentically plays like a guitar.
There is this odd idea based on "native common sense" that making minimal changes to the guitar by just tacking on a MIDI Pickup with Controller Package results in a more guitar-like experience. No one who has ever designed even a door handle on a car would give that idea a pass. It literally contradicts almost two generations of design science.
The engineers who design MIDI guitar controllers view them as an exclusively electronic and mechanical problem informed by their native common sense as guitar players at best. There is also a certain narcissistic elitism propagated in social media, a pride in manipulating complex technology, that doesn't objectively encourage research in optimizing the guitar as a system of control that seamlessly integrates digital control in a uniform, consistent, intuitive manner.
No matter how they look, they do not "feel" like guitars.
I seek to introduce a hackable, systemic paradigm, an exosystem that DOES NOT ask guitar players to relearn the instrument in ways that do not build upon their native guitar skills.
You may be familiar with Remote Desktop/KVM technology from the mainstream computer world. I am interested in an innovative adaptation of ultra-low latency MIDI and Audio over IP, wired and wireless.
We seek to render the technology transparent, all but invisible to the artist, off-loading many software/hardware functions that not relevant to the immediacy of performance, but with progressively greater depth and nuance of control easily available for creative customization.
I found "Open Stage Control" while looking for the Open Sound Control/TouchOSC as the possible interim solution for my music ecosystem's graphical and control logic interface.
Open Sound was a dead-end, while Open Stage looks like a thriving platform with multiple communities
I am using the Elk Audio OS, their Raspberry Pi dev kit including the Elk Pi hat, together with Blackboard Breakout/Controller board. Elk OS is a Linux variant that assumes the use of the Sushi Headless DAW that has native hooks for JSON and since it had previously been used with Open Sound, comes with the reasonable assumption that Open Stage Control would do even better for a compatible, more agnostic platform that would accelerate initial development and allow us to quickly respond to users needs.
As you might have read on my cooperative's music instrument website:
Síofгaí CybeгMusıcal is an extension of Λп Solas Sí ΛгtScıeпce, the performing arts and science cooperative.
In a world where hyperbole and egoism is not only the norm but often the stock in trade, the work of the Síofraí, speaks for itself, form following function, with every expression of art and science, so subtle, as to render them all but invisible, never disrupting the creative flow, but an extension of the artist’s will.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
― Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law
