The tablo senses position of the draped conductive fabric using the ring of conductive plastic strips on the bowl. Pressure is sensed using the piezoresistive fabric strips around the annulus surrounding the bowl.

Commentary proposed for NIME Reader

The fingerphone is my creative response to three umbridges: the waste and unsustainability of musical instrument manufacturing practices, the prevailing absence of long historical research to underwrite claims of newness in NIME community projects, and the timbral poverty of the singular, strident sawtooth wavefrom of the Stylophone – the point of departure for the fingerphone instrument design.

David Wessel’s Slabs: a case study in Preventative Digital Musical Instrument Conservation, Freed, Adrian , SMC2016, 2016, Hamburg, (2016)

Description:

Rectangular grids are dominant forms in electronics and textiles. Triaxial grids have not been explored in e-textile work so this breadboard is offered to begin these explorations. Triaxial grids sample the plane with higher density and the availability of whug connections as well as warp and woof simplifies circuits by providing a natural power/ground/signal triple.