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14.05.2016

From time immemorial, people have created music with their own physical "assets", so to speak - voices or hands, even if these hands had to use "instruments" (literally and figuratively) to play it. The efforts of many inventors in recent times have been aimed at expanding the capabilities of such tools. For example, not so long ago, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) professor Gil Weinberg demonstrated an automatic prosthesis that gives the drummer unprecedented and unheard of possibilities in the form of a third hand that reacts both to the music being played and to the movements of the musician.

However, no one has yet thought of using the biological potential of the body. This was done by a group of musicians, engineers and designers from New York, united in a company called XTH. And united them in her musical instrument Xth Sense ("X feeling"), developed by a specialist in the field of "biophysical music" Marco Donnarumma (Marco Donnarumma). Marco started working on the instrument in 2010 when he was a student at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). And by 2016, the company had gotten a few prototypes smart enough to place a crowdfunding call on the Kickstarter crowdfunding site.

The XTH Sense device is designed to be worn on the arms, legs or waist. Sensors, a radio transmitter and a highly sensitive bioacoustic microphone are hidden under the polyurethane shell. During the movement of users, sensors measure body temperature, record gestures and capture bioacoustic signals from contracting muscles, blood flowing in vessels and heartbeat. With the help of radio signals, information is transmitted to computers located at a distance of up to 15 m, where it is processed by software created by the company.

Depending on the wishes of the user, the XTH Sense device can create digital music or enhance the capabilities of a live instrument. Moreover, when using graphic design programs, the device can recognize body movements as commands to change the direction of the stroke, the size of the brush or the intensity of the paint, thus creating a synthesis of "biophysical" music and "biophysical" painting.

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