I am doing some research on the artists who do or did the similar project. I found Owl project instantly after a while of research. ‘Owl Project is a collaborative group of artists consisting of Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons. They work with wood and electronics to fuse sculpture and sound art, creating music making machines, interfaces and objects which intermix pre-steam and digital technologies. Drawing on influences such as 70’s synthesiser culture, DIY woodworking and current digital crafts, the resulting artwork is a quirky and intriguing critique of the allure and production of technology. The result is a distinctive range of musical and sculptural instruments that critique human interaction with computer interfaces and our increasing appetite for new and often disposable technologies.’
They have two project that are fairly similar to my idea. The first one is SoundLathe. Lathe is a primitive human power machine for wood and bowl turning. The put a sensors on the lathe, and it transfer the shape of the turning wood into data. Then using those data to modulate synth. It is performative project where the lather working on the lathe, and sound artists using those data for electronic music.
Another one is called Rock music. It works similar to SoundLathe. But rather than using Lathe as the sources, it use ‘Knapping’. It is the most primitive way to sharpening the stones, which they claim is a ‘5000 years back in time to one of the oldest known creative processes’. They also place the sensors on flint knapper hand. While the knapper hit the stone, it create signal to modulate the sounds.
Both project try to redundant processes with technology, and explore the traditional craftsmanship and it sounds. The difference to my project is that they only use the crafting action as a data to interact and create electronic music. Where for my project, I am trying to explore and using the sounds of the crafting itself. The ultimate are creating more like soundscape composition, rather than electronic or acousmatic music.