The Period Instrument

2024
Yann Seznec & Nadia Campo Woytuk

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The Period Instrument is an interface for musical expression that requires the input of menstrual blood in order to be played. Drawing from both experimental musical instrument design and feminist design, the resulting object exists both as a sound-making device as well as a vector for challenging normative principles of musical instrument design.