]> http://www.internetfilter.com/w/blog/jeff en http://www.internetfilter.com/w/node/108 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <h1>The Kit 100</h1> <p>Many years ago in 1990, Bob Turner and I, Jeff Koftinoff, were working on alternative MIDI input devices at Simon Fraser University specifically for high level quadriplegics.</p> <p>During our work at S.F.U., we came across a video for MIT Medialab's <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/SpectrumWeb/captions/Baton.html ">"The Digital Baton"</a>. In the video that we were shown, one person "conducted" a MIDI sequence playing on a computer with a large baton, while another person played along with a violin.</p> <p>One of the projects that we designed at S.F.U. was called the "Kit-100", which was a small pressure sensitive touch pad which controlled any MIDI instrument. Bob Turner and I decided that we needed to make a video in response to MIT's. However, in <i>our</i> video, I would control the electronic pad with a tiny Q-tip instead of a large baton, and Bob would play a large bass violin instead of a tiny violin. Instead of a MIDI sequence, we would play improvised music.</p><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:16:43 -0700