Pitch Fork: A Novel tactile Digital Musical Instrument
Peter Williams, and Daniel Overholt
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Year: 2017
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Pages: 62–64
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176173 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:
Pitch Fork is a prototype of an alternate, actuated digital musical instrument (DMI). It uses 5 infra-red and 4 piezoelectric sensors to control an additive synthesis engine. Iron bars are used as the physical point of contact in interaction with the aim of using material computation to control aspects of the digitally produced sound. This choice of material was also chosen to affect player experience. Sensor readings are relayed to a Macbook via an Arduino Mega. Mappings and audio output signal is carried out with Pure Data Extended.
Citation:
Peter Williams, and Daniel Overholt. 2017. Pitch Fork: A Novel tactile Digital Musical Instrument. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176173BibTeX Entry:
@inproceedings{pwilliams2017a, abstract = {Pitch Fork is a prototype of an alternate, actuated digital musical instrument (DMI). It uses 5 infra-red and 4 piezoelectric sensors to control an additive synthesis engine. Iron bars are used as the physical point of contact in interaction with the aim of using material computation to control aspects of the digitally produced sound. This choice of material was also chosen to affect player experience. Sensor readings are relayed to a Macbook via an Arduino Mega. Mappings and audio output signal is carried out with Pure Data Extended.}, address = {Copenhagen, Denmark}, author = {Peter Williams and Daniel Overholt}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176173}, issn = {2220-4806}, pages = {62--64}, publisher = {Aalborg University Copenhagen}, title = {Pitch Fork: A Novel tactile Digital Musical Instrument}, url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2017/nime2017_paper0013.pdf}, year = {2017} }