The Period Instrument

A menstrual musical instrument

The Period Instrument, a collaboration with Nadia Campo Woytuk, is a musical instrument that creates sound in response to menstrual blood.

We presented a paper about this work at NIME 2024 and received a Best Paper Award. You can read the paper here.

Here’s a video discussion between Nadia and myself about the instrument and what makes it interesting (to us, anyway):