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The SBass, designed and built by Curtis Bahn in 2001, is a 5-string upright electric bass fitted with an array of pickups and numerous tactile sensors, such as sliders, potentiometers, and tilt detectors, that track the performer's physical movements to process, shape, and mix sounds in realtime.
Bahn writes: "An aim in creating this interface is to enable me to take my electro-acoustic music out of the studio and into a wide range of performance contexts ... "
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The photo at the left shows Curtis Bahn playing the S-Bass with a spherical loudspeaker array designed by Perry Cook.
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