HapticSOUND: An Interactive Learning Experience with a Digital Musical Instrument

Learning Musical Instrument Skills Through Interactive Sonification

Interactive visualisation methods have been used to understand realtime acoustic analysis for the purpose of learning musical skills. However, interactive sonification has not often been considered, perhaps because it is assumed the musician cannot concentrate simultaneously on two sounds – their instrument’s sound, and the sonified information. However, whilst some finesse is required in desig...

Osiris: a liquid based digital musical instrument

This article describes the process of creation of a new digital musical instrument: Osiris. This device is based on the circulation detection of liquids for the generation of musical notes. Besides the system of liquid distribution, a module that generates MIDI events was designed and built based on the Arduino platform; such module is employed together with a Proteus 2000 sound generator progr...

The Squiggle: A Digital Musical Instrument

This paper discusses some of the issues pertaining to the design of digital musical instruments that are to effectively fill the role of traditional instruments (i.e. those based on physical sound production mechanisms). The design and implementation of a musical instrument that addresses some of these issues, using scanned synthesis coupled to a “smart” physical system, is described.

IMUTUS – an interactive system for learning to play a musical instrument

IMUTUS (Interactive Music Tuition System) is a EU project that aims to develop a practising environment for the recorder, combining new technologies and new approaches for music learning. Automatic analysis and evaluation of student performances play a central role in the student-system interaction. The performance evaluation module identifies typical performance errors, and provides feedback t...

Development of a Digital Musical Instrument with Embedded Sound Synthesis