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#About the Project

Engage in a new musical compositional experience using capacitive touch sensors to trigger pre-recorded loops. This contains our open-source Arduino code, processing sketch, and some pre-recorded wav files for such a project.

The hacked guitar is a project aimed at bringing code to life. At M3Lab we are actively inventing, participating in and designing new technologies, pedagogies, and experiences for engaging everyone in meaningful, public, and open-source coding opportunities. Our work is inspired by John Dewey’s emphasis on art as a fundamental form of human experience. And yes, learning through inventing is an art. This specific project was part of a larger interactive musical performance initiative, which employed and demonstrated various forms of coding (like the hacked guitar), live musicians, computer simulations, and public feedback that took place at the University of Calgary. Stay tuned for more ideas from the future.

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