SABRe: The Augmented Bass Clarinet

Sébastien Schiesser, and Jan C. Schacher

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

An augmented bass clarinet is developed in order to extend the performance and composition potential of the instru-ment. Four groups of sensors are added: key positions, inertial movement, mouth pressure and trigger switches. The instrument communicates wirelessly with a receiver setup which produces an OSC data stream, usable by any appli-cation on a host computer. The SABRe projects intention is to be neither tied to its inventors nor to one single player but to offer a reference design for a larger community of bass clarinet players and composers. For this purpose, several instruments are made available and a number of composer residencies, workshops, presentations and concerts are organized. These serve for evaluation and improvement purposes in order to build a robust and user friendly extended musical instrument, that opens new playing modalities.

Citation:

Sébastien Schiesser, and Jan C. Schacher. 2012. SABRe: The Augmented Bass Clarinet. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1180587

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Schiesser2012,
 abstract = {An augmented bass clarinet is developed in order to extend the performance and composition potential of the instru-ment. Four groups of sensors are added: key positions, inertial movement, mouth pressure and trigger switches. The instrument communicates wirelessly with a receiver setup which produces an OSC data stream, usable by any appli-cation on a host computer.
The SABRe projects intention is to be neither tied to its inventors nor to one single player but to offer a reference design for a larger community of bass clarinet players and composers. For this purpose, several instruments are made available and a number of composer residencies, workshops, presentations and concerts are organized. These serve for evaluation and improvement purposes in order to build a robust and user friendly extended musical instrument, that opens new playing modalities.},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
 author = {S{\'e}bastien Schiesser and Jan C. Schacher},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1180587},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {augmented instrument, bass clarinet, sensors, air pressure, gesture, OSC},
 publisher = {University of Michigan},
 title = {SABRe: The Augmented Bass Clarinet},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_193.pdf},
 year = {2012}
}