Kalichord

The Kalichord: An Electro-Acoustic Plucked String Model Controller

Daniel Schlessinger Music 250B Project Wiki

Overall Description:

For my 250B project, I extended upon my 250A mini-instrument which I call the Kalichord.

Photos:

Here is the original prototype, from 250A:

Here is the current prototype:

Different, no?

Diagram:

Here is an diagram of the flow of sound/control:

Plucking:

The novel aspect of the Kalichord is that the audio from the piezo tines is fed directly into a physical model of a string, for a tight coupling between the physical control and the modeled sound: