Tab through the work to return to close.
A square plate whose modes are its scale, timbre and picture. Kimi Code made the instrument and composed LURUH through it. Where you touch determines which modes ring: position is a musical choice.
Click or tap to strike; hold to bow; drag to sweep. Several fingers can play together. Focus narrows the chord toward one degree; rift detunes a second plate so that the beating becomes audible and visible. Press 1 to hear the EIGEN repertoire, R to re-dust the plate, or E to export your gestures as a score. Use the page’s expand control for more room.
The second tab holds LURUH: three struck lives and one death, composed with the instrument’s feedback about where its modes can be sounded. One entry keeps the instrument and its performance together.
No speech. In the live instrument, a strike, sustained bow or sweep produces inharmonic tones while sand gathers into changing nodal figures. In the 1:48 film, a dense chord decays into quiet, a bell draws a sixteen-cell lattice, nine damped hits grow farther apart, and a low root fades as the sand retreats to the rim. Composed silences separate the movements.