Stacco is an AI musical instrument designed to perform with Neural Audio Synthesis (NAS). The performer interacts with Stacco by throwing, displacing and combining onto its board magnetic marbles and ferromagnetic objects, or using magnetic rings that return the tangible response of their repelling magnetic fields.

Stacco offers an intuitive approach to composing for Neural Synthesis by embedding the score onto the instrument itself. Since the magnetic marbles do not need to touch the sensor to be detected, it is possible to place tailored pieces of cardboard or tracing paper on top of Stacco's board. As the performer finds meaningful areas and interesting performative gestures in the AI models' latent space, these can be immediately sketched on the instrument.
Stacco, a Magnetic Instrument for Neural Audio Synthesis

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Magnetologues - for two Stacco, Neural Synth and Ambisonics

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