Will Copps' Liminal @ Catholic vs Fingerophone

Transitions—from stillness to movement, and from digital to physical realms—make up a large and underappreciated part of our daily lives. Will Copps explores and expands on these moments in his new spatial composition, Liminal, leveraging GPS to weave music into the rich historical environment and topography of Catholic University. Walk the campus and hear sounds change in line with your movement, framing the campus in a whole new way. The app pairs with an immersive, spatial audio/video exhibition in the Salve Regina Gallery, extending the reach of the gallery and its art across the entire campus. Students, faculty, and visitors can download the app and experience a gallery without walls that reframes our daily interaction with the spaces and their expression of beauty, interest, and contemplation. The app is released via TCW. More information can be found via Catholic University at: https://art.catholic.edu/news/exhibitions/index.html; technical help can be found on willcopps.com and TCWav.com.

Fingerophone brings the feel of a classic pocket electronic instrument to your iPhone and iPad: slide a finger to play, with no extra hardware to buy. Slide across the compact hex keyboard to play an electronic tone instantly. It is a real monophonic touch synthesizer that makes its own warm, analog-style sound: two slightly detuned oscillators give it a vintage warmth, a resonant low-pass filter rounds off the digital edge, and vibrato adds the familiar wobble. Every control stays within reach while the note is still playing: - Four waveforms (sine, triangle, saw, square), crossfaded as you switch - Vibrato for the classic pocket-synth wobble - Tone to darken or brighten the sound - Drive to push it from clean into gritty - Volume A live oscilloscope draws the actual signal coming out of the synth, so the screen moves with the sound instead of running a canned animation. Scroll the keyboard across several octaves and play quick melodies, sustained drones, and noisy little riffs. Plug in a MIDI keyboard to play the synth, then map its knobs to the controls with MIDI Learn. The sound is generated on your device. You can play without an account or an internet connection. Whether you want to experiment with a pocket synth, explore warm analog-style sounds, or try a finger-played instrument without buying hardware, Fingerophone keeps everything on one focused screen.