Flag beat: a novel interface for rhythmic musical expression for kids

Stefano Trento, and Stefania Serafin

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2013
• Location: Daejeon, Republic of Korea
• Pages: 456–459
• Keywords: Sonic toy, children, auditory feedback.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178682 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

This paper describes the development of a prototype of a sonic toy forpre-scholar kids. The device, which is a modified version of a footballratchet, is based on the spinning gesture and it allows to experience fourdifferent types of auditory feedback. These algorithms let a kid play withmusic rhythm, generate a continuous sound feedback and control the pitch of apiece of music. An evaluation test of the device has been performed withfourteen kids in a kindergarten. Results and observations showed that kidspreferred the algorithms based on the exploration of the music rhythm and onpitch shifting.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Trento2013,
 abstract = {This paper describes the development of a prototype of a sonic toy forpre-scholar kids. The device, which is a modified version of a footballratchet, is based on the spinning gesture and it allows to experience fourdifferent types of auditory feedback. These algorithms let a kid play withmusic rhythm, generate a continuous sound feedback and control the pitch of apiece of music. An evaluation test of the device has been performed withfourteen kids in a kindergarten. Results and observations showed that kidspreferred the algorithms based on the exploration of the music rhythm and onpitch shifting.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Stefano Trento and Stefania Serafin},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178682},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Sonic toy, children, auditory feedback.},
 month = {May},
 pages = {456--459},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Flag beat: a novel interface for rhythmic musical expression for kids},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_295.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}