Controlling Physically Based Virtual Musical Instruments Using The Gloves

Stefania Serafin, Stefano Trento, Francesco Grani, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Seb Madgwick, and Tom Mitchell

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

In this paper we propose an empirical method to develop mapping strategies between a gestural based interface (the Gloves) and physically based sound synthesis models. An experiment was performed in order to investigate which kind of gestures listeners associate to synthesised sounds produced using physical models, corresponding to three categories of sound: sustained, iterative and impulsive. The results of the experiment show that listeners perform similar gestures when controlling sounds from the different categories. We used such gestures in order to create the mapping strategy between the Gloves and the physically based synthesis engine.

Citation:

Stefania Serafin, Stefano Trento, Francesco Grani, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Seb Madgwick, and Tom Mitchell. 2014. Controlling Physically Based Virtual Musical Instruments Using The Gloves. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178937

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{sserafin2014,
 abstract = {In this paper we propose an empirical method to develop mapping strategies between a gestural based interface (the Gloves) and physically based sound synthesis models. An experiment was performed in order to investigate which kind of gestures listeners associate to synthesised sounds produced using physical models, corresponding to three categories of sound: sustained, iterative and impulsive. The results of the experiment show that listeners perform similar gestures when controlling sounds from the different categories. We used such gestures in order to create the mapping strategy between the Gloves and the physically based synthesis engine.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Stefania Serafin and Stefano Trento and Francesco Grani and Hannah Perner-Wilson and Seb Madgwick and Tom Mitchell},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178937},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {521--524},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Controlling Physically Based Virtual Musical Instruments Using The Gloves},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_307.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}