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

Razvan Paisa; Stefania Serafin; Cumhur Erkut

doi:10.1145/2986416.2986434

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

Razvan Paisa, Stefania Serafin, Cumhur Erkut

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Audiomostly
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2016
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4822-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2986416.2986434
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Audiomostly 2016 - Duration: 4 Oct 2016 → …

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