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Musical instrument interaction: development of a sensor fingerboard for string instruments

Type: conference paper

Authors: Tobias Grosshauser, Gerhand Tröster

Abstract
In the past few years, many technologies for motion capturing are used to examine posture and movements of musicians. Several video and sensor based systems are developed and available for these observations. In research and for augmented instruments one parameter is underrepresented so far. It is pressure and force applied by the musician while playing the musical instrument. In this paper we show a force-sensitive-resistor (FSR) based solution for position and force sensing between the contact point of the fingers and the musical instrument exemplarily built on a fingerboard of a violin and a load cell based approach built between the finger board and the neck of the violin. Main focus was an unobtrusive integration of the sensors into a traditional musical instrument. A software tool allows the recording of the sensor data and real-time MIDI and OSC data transmission for easy integration into electronic music setups.

URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2540930.2540956

Associated tags
metadata ▸ material ▸ Sensor fingerboard
metadata ▸ contribution ▸ Presentation
metadata ▸ year ▸ 2013
technological dimension ▸ applications ▸ Tangible computing
technological dimension ▸ input technologies ▸ Tangibles, wearables
technological dimension ▸ system outputs ▸ Raw data
musical dimension ▸ activities ▸ Performing
pedagogical dimension ▸ learning theories ▸ Cognitivism
pedagogical dimension ▸ users ▸ Not defined
pedagogical dimension ▸ venues ▸ Lab