Viudì

Multimedia luthery

Musical instruments from ethnical inspiration via mechanical and eletrical amplification.

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african violins

Open source projects

customizable and modular

The instruments grow sharing projects, 3d drawings, electrical schemes, software code. They are made of modules and they can interface within each other.

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african cello

Sound

Mixture of mechanics and electronics

The creation of sound generates from the continuous conversion of mechanical oscillations and electronics where filters are a mixture of both.

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mechanical amplification

What do we create

A sound as mixture of vibration of wood, metal, skins and electrical amplification.

coco resonator

Ethnical tradition

Recovering of vibrant modules of the storical/ethnical tradition with modern usability.

kamancheh

Mechanical coupling

Vibrant parts (wood, skin and metal) couple to create mechanical filters to mix with electronics.

continuum piano

Non tempered

Non tempered instruments for a free sound rich in portamento, glissato, tremolo...

Our instruments

We have created instruments for violinist, pianists, djs.

Resin

Type3d resin violin with lightning
Date2016
MaterialsOlive, resin
Soundcoming..

A violin for dark stages and theater performances

Gaart

TypeCovibration of skin, wood and metal
DateAugust 2014
MaterialsNut, olive, iroko, oak, skin, iron
Soundcoming..

The bridge shakes the skin membranes that induce the vibration in the wooden resonator and the iron stick.

Strativari

Type3d multilayer violin
Date2017
MaterialsPoliu, wood paste, resin, olive
Soundsample

Full body violin composed on various layers: strativari in italian, sound waves propagates through different densisty means.

Wooder

TypeWooder loudspeaker, wood plates in vibrations
Date2015
MaterialsMultilayer, fir
Soundcoming..

Loudspeaker composed on woode vibrating plates on one axis and coated tweeter on the the other

MarCello

TypeRobust and handy cello
DateJanuary 2015
MaterialsBamboo, nut, olive, skin
Soundcoming..

The resonator develops the idea of dipole emission where four slits start from the bridge and are tuned for each string. The skins recover the vibrations to substain sound duration.

no-key-board

TypeTouch piano
DateMay 2014
MaterialsPlexiglass, led, wood, webcam
Soundsample

Keyboard without keys where each finger corresponds to a note and allows the typical effects of the violin like glissato and tremolo.

Mechanical music

TypeComposition for mechanical music
DateJuly 2014
MaterialsArduino, piezo, DC motors
Soundsample

Composition for mechanical music where each note is a mixture of percussive and melodic with important constraints on dynamics and strong portamento.

Elettronics

TypeAmplifiers
DateJune 2014
MaterialsOpAmp, passive components
Soundcoming..

Preamplifiers for microphones piezo used in the different instruments and motors drivers.

DSP - McAmp

TypeDigital sound processing
Date2019
MaterialsProgramming of digital sound processing
Soundcoming..

Controllers and programming for axoloti, teensy, arduino

  • bamboo violin

    Resin

    3d resin violin with lightning

  • electrical violin

    Gaart

    Meeting point between Brescia and Africa

  • electrical violin

    Strativari

    3d multilayer violin

  • kamancheh

    Wooder

    Loudspeaker made as a violin

  • african cello

    MarCello

    Cello with bamboo resonator

  • continuum piano

    no-key-board

    non tempered touch piano

  • mechanical music

    Mechanical music

    composition for mecahnical music

  • violin electronics

    Electronics

    preamp, oscillators, piezo microphones

  • mechanical amplification

    McAmp

    DSP - Mechanical amplifier

Team

Everybody contributes with his own knowledge, things to know and to do are many..

Giovanni Marelli

Giovanni Marelli

Inventons

Physics might look for an application, why not extend it with the eternal passion for music?

Ludovico Venturini

Channel EIFT

Sound design

Constantly seeking for the clean sound, analogical mechanics and new musical forms.

Elia de Molli

Elia de Molli

Testing

Polimusician and deep expert in evolution of string instruments along the centuries, passionate about compositions from pre-barok to contemporary music and folk.

We

We are a small team of music passionate that develop new form of sound creating new instuments that follows the criteria of purity and non temperament.

We know

  • Sound generation

  • Composition

  • Luthery

  • Electronics

  • Mechanics

Join

Competences to develop such instruments are neverending, everybody who has passion for music can download the meterial and keep on developing a new sound based on wooden viration and electrical fintering.

We put in our instruments the sounds that hit our attention.

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References

References from whom has tried viduì or partecipate to its develop.

"Viudì allowed to phylologically recreate ancient instruments and lost sounds."

Rana Shieh Rana Kamanchist

"No-key-board is on the way to overcome the laws of temperament and live the pianist the freedom the develop a polyphony rich in within tones, glissati and tremoli."

Giovanni Carattoni Lah'lunah Pianist/organist

"Viudì recreates a uinion between new electronics to allow technologies to a broader audiece."

20Hz studio 20Hz Recording studio

We recover an ambiental expressivity winning the limits of temperament.

Our supporters

A tribute to Salò

And everybody who helped us:
Aleo, Cri, Marco, Mauro, Mario, Lois, Andrea (technics), Paolo, Vto (design), Giulio, Elena, Jacopo (wood), Paolo (electronics), Gio, Rana, Guido (sound), Towein (graphics)...

What do we know

We perform different manufacturing, repair and develop instruments, audio consultancy.

Repairing

  • Type on wood, lack or skin
  • Time a week
  • Personalisation total
Propose

Construction

  • Type custom instruments
  • Time months
  • Personalisation total
Propose

Audio

  • Type audio/writing
  • Time weeks
  • Personalisation total
Propose

Customization is the most important characteristic.

Propose and exchange ideas

Contact us

We are interested in getting in touch with music passionate that want to contribute in developing the proejct.

Salò

viudi @ inven tati.org

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