In 1989 and 1990 I was the artist in residence at Simon Fraser University's school of electrical engineering.  Jeff Koftinoff was in charge of  micro electronics on this project.   This is not how we met but this was the  fire that forged our partnership.

The project was about making  innovative input devices for high quads on ventilators and working with/creating 2 rock and roll bands.

As part of this project we went to MIT where we saw a film of a
violin player and a "pad " player playing improvised new music compositions.  The pad player was an approximately 2 foot square surface that was a medi controller with an xyz axis.  It was played with Tympani mallets.  Their demure was "very serious"  and stoic.

Jeff was working on the same thing but his was about 5 inches square with an xyz axis.  I had to turn in a  composition with respect to this project and  I decided this was too good to be true.  So we emulated the MIT video except Jeff played his pad with q tips and I played a very large violin.  So it was similar but  backwards.  We also tried to look even more serious, stoic and took that "over the top".  We thought that was funny but in that environment maybe not.

Some pictures from the video are on the side.  It was recorded on a single 1990 SVHS camera and solorized.