The Embroidered Musical Ball: A Squeezable Instrument for Expressive Performance

The Embroidered Musical Ball: A Squeezable Instrument for Expressive Performance (2000)

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by Gili Weinberg , Maggie Orth

Venue:	Proceedings of CHI. The Hague
Citations:	12 - 1 self

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TITLE	The Embroidered Musical Ball: A Squeezable Instrument for Expressive Performance	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Gili Weinberg	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	MIT Media Lab	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	20 Ames Street; Cambridge, MA 02139 USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Maggie Orth	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	MIT Media Lab	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	20 Ames Street; Cambridge, MA 02139 USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	In this paper, we describe the Embroidered Musical Ball, a soft, tactile computer/MIDI musical instrument, that lets untrained children, novices and/or professionals perform and manipulate expressive and detailed music with simple everyday physical hand gestures such as squeezing and stretching. Our new embroidered pressure sensors replace the hard, bulky and awkward continuous control sensors common in most computer instruments, i.e., sliders, knobs and buttons. The combination of this light and easily physically manipulated instrument with a new, immersive approach to musical software allows players to expressively explore music with an immediacy not experienced in traditional instruments, which emphasize years of training to learn the precise control of pitches, timing, levels and various expression instructions. Instead, the musical ball lets players manipulate and explore a complete musical composition that has been mapped to different embroidered sensors. This allows players to immediately squeeze and mold the ball to perform the pre-composed music in an expressive manner.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2000	INFERENCE
VENUE	Proceedings of CHI. The Hague	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	283--284	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	6 found	ParsCit 1.0