Theremin

What it does

Luke Phillips is a design engineer building expressive, accessible tools for learning and making music.

I'm Luke Phillips — a designer and developer building expressive, accessible music tools across software, hardware and the web. Funputs is a suite of MIDI instruments. Most music software is built around knobs, sliders, menus, numbers and text. With Funputs, I've been exploring how much of that can be replaced with space, colour, movement and shape. Comet is an expressive XY pad. Orbit tunes you to any scale. Cluster generates chords. Use your mouse, or pair a phone or tablet for wireless multi-touch control. At ROLI, I worked across piano learning, interactive notation, audio, hardware integration and conversational AI, including AI Music Coach and Airwave. I integrated computer vision…from femurdesign.com

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