The mubone is an augmented instrument that tracks the orientation of the host object, a trombone, which effectively captures the performer’s movements for the purposes of real-time recording, playback, layering, and processing vis-à-vis a virtual 3D environment and a bespoke granular synthesis engine called mugranular.
The piece explores alternative ways of knowing bodies—both human and non-human—through hacking biomedical technology for musical expression. The instrument consists of a modified stethoscope whose signal routes to a microphone, then to an amplifier, then to a transducer.