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Electronic Armonica: a Tangible Musical Interface inspired by the Glass Harmonica

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Razvan Paisa,

Cumhur Erkut,

Stefania SerafinAuthors Info & Claims

AM '16: Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2016

Pages 251 - 257

https://doi.org/10.1145/2986416.2986434

Published: 04 October 2016 Publication History

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This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a tangible musical interface inspired by the glass harmonica, and two methods for synthesizing a glass sound: additive synthesis and physical modeling using banded waveguides. These methods were implemented in Pure Data and in Max/MSP, respectively. An interface was created using laser cutting and 3D printing tools. An Arduino microcontroller is used to create a virtual capacitive sensor for detecting touch. The interface has been evaluated in order to test its playability and to evaluate the overall behavior of the system. Besides having technical limitations expected from a prototype, the results are promising.

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AM '16: Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2016

October 2016

285 pages

ISBN:9781450348225

DOI:10.1145/2986416

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Johan Fagerlönn
Interactive Institute Swedish ICT

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