Peripheral Love (2023)
USB3 (Urban Synth Boys 3): Soohyun Kim & Terry Feng & Yikai Li
Keyboard (Key-tar): you can pitch-bend each note by shaking the keyboard.
Bass: you play the bass by plucking a wire of a GameTrak controller.
Mouse Drum: you play various drum sounds by clicking and scroll-wheeling.
Computer Music meets City Pop, one of the trendiest popular music genres of 2023! Welcome to the world of USB3, where everyday computing peripherals become expressive musical instruments. “Peripheral Love” is USB3’s debut single, a song about living in the city and loving computer music (and Chipotle). Inspired by Japanese pop artist Mariya Takeuchi and her iconic hit, “Plastic Love”, we’ve carefully designed and mastered the computer peripherals to play popular music in a new way.
(I play the Key-tar and vocals in the above performance.)
(In the above performance, due to the bad monitoring condition, we recognize there were some miss timing issues.)
