Tromba Moderna: A Digitally Augmented Medieval Instrument

Alex Baldwin, Troels Hammer, Edvinas Pechiulis, Peter Williams, Dan Overholt, and Stefania Serafin

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2016
• Location: Brisbane, Australia
• Track: Papers
• Pages: 14–19
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3964592 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

An interactive museum exhibit of a digitally augmented medieval musical instrument, the tromba marina, is presented. The tromba marina is a curious single stringed instrument with a rattling bridge, from which a trumpet-like timbre is produced. The physical instrument was constructed as a replica of one found in Musikmuseet in Frederiksberg. The replicated instrument was augmented with a pickup, speakers and digital signal processing to create a more reliable, approachable and appropriate instrument for interactive display in the museum. We report on the evaluation of the instrument performed at the Danish museum of musical instruments.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Baldwin2016,
 abstract = {An interactive museum exhibit of a digitally augmented medieval musical instrument, the tromba marina, is presented. The tromba marina is a curious single stringed instrument with a rattling bridge, from which a trumpet-like timbre is produced. The physical instrument was constructed as a replica of one found in Musikmuseet in Frederiksberg. The replicated instrument was augmented with a pickup, speakers and digital signal processing to create a more reliable, approachable and appropriate instrument for interactive display in the museum. We report on the evaluation of the instrument performed at the Danish museum of musical instruments.},
 address = {Brisbane, Australia},
 author = {Alex Baldwin and Troels Hammer and Edvinas Pechiulis and Peter Williams and Dan Overholt and Stefania Serafin},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3964592},
 isbn = {978-1-925455-13-7},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {14--19},
 publisher = {Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University},
 title = {Tromba Moderna: A Digitally Augmented Medieval Instrument},
 track = {Papers},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2016/nime2016_paper0004.pdf},
 year = {2016}
}