Michelle Nagai’s MARtLET, another early instrument created with Wekinator, contains 28 light sensors embedded in a wearable piece of tree bark. Here, ML made it feasible to construct mappings that translated these 28 noisy values to up to 15 Max/MSP synthesis parameters, where they control the pitch range of the generated sounds, as well as the pulse period, amplitude, and filter Q parameters of a vocoder.

Michelle Nagai’s MARtLET.