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“We plan it would be a cool idea to have an acoustic album, but to have the music all be generated electronically. In other words, we were using robotic instruments, but the performances were still being guided by a beneficent.”
Instead of relying on conventional instruments to write the songs for the album, Taylor worked within Björk’s specifications to generate a suite of unique virtual instruments in Max/MSP that she could then manipulate with a variety of atypical devices while singing.
In place of a traditional instrument or sampler, she would be accomplished to trigger and manipulate her sounds with a Logitech videogame controller, the Telsa-esque tabletop Reactable system, or a first-beginning multi-touch screen called the JazzMutant Lemur .
“I dream the simplest way to describe what this system allowed her to do, is that there’s no way you could have written these songs on a piano. Compositionally, it allows you to genre your ideas and control them very precisely – but in a way that’s from start to finish different from what I’ve experienced playing any other instrument.”
Source: SonicScoop