by Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American
Kimura donned a white fingerless glove laden with wireless sensors, plugged her “augmented” violin into her laptop onstage, and proceeded to demonstrate how she is redefining the relationship musicians have with both their instruments and their music. After a few moments setting up her interactive bowing technology Kimura launched into her composition Voyage Apollonian, during which her bow strokes controlled an animation sequence created by New York University computer science professor Ken Perlin. As she played, the glove’s sensors sent data to software running on her laptop, prompting a black-and-white butterfly on the large screen behind her to morph into various shapes and patterns before returning to its original winged configuration.
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