The MIDI controller with pressure sensors lets my feet touching the grains on the ground. The touch moves my body that wades through the sound.

Touching and feeling the pressure helps my body feel grounded when performing with sensors. I want to make a midi that invites body gestures and forget the fact that it's just a digital mapping process. I was exploring the relationship between these electronics, my body, and the sound. Technology shouldn't be made to minimize human effort but to inspire us being aware of more unconscious gestures that introduce different knowledge of our body and ourselves.

Project Detail

The design of this project is made together with Cheng-Lin Lee. Material listed below:

• Teensy 4.1 Development Board
• Square Force-Sensitive Resistor (FSR)
• 3.5mm mono audio jacks and cables, toggles, knobs, switches
• magnets, leather, wood (unknown type)

Test version

An experiment of breath and touch.

I felt the rise and fall of my chest. I hear noise when I breath. I felt the pressure when I put pressure on the sensors.