Vonome
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, NYU ITP 2009
Vonome is a portmanteau of the words video and Monome.
Vonome is a musical instrument as well as an interactive installation, as well as a max/msp/jitter patch.
Vonome is a 5 octave polyphonic keyboard that plays videos rather than notes; videos are projected onto a screen and organized in a 10 X 6 array, like this:
Here's what the chromatic scale looks like on the screen:
Here's another example of someone playing the Vonome:
& here's a very short video example:
& another:
**new** fullscreen mode:
still polyphonic + alpha channel / opacity blend