Freqtric Drums : A Musical Instrument that Uses Skin Contact as an Interface

Freqtric Drums is a new musical, corporal electronic instrument that allows us not only to recover face-to-face communication, but also makes possible body-to-body communication so that a self image based on the sense of being a separate body can be signicant altered through an openness toand even a sense of becoming part of another body. FreqtricDrums is a device that turns audiences surrounding a performer into drums so that the performer, as a drummer, cancommunicate with audience members as if they were a setof drums. We describe our concept and the implementationand process of evolution of Freqtric Drums.