The augmentalist: Enabling musicians to develop augmented musical instruments

Dan Newton, Mark T. Marshall

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Abstract

We present the Augmentalist: a system that allows a musician to augment their existing musical instrument using a variety of sensors. This system is focused on the musician and their musical aims, rather than the sensor technology being used. The overall goal is to create allow musicians to easily explore new musical performance techniques with augmented musical instruments. We present the design process and implementation of the system, an example of an instrument developed by one of the 10 participating musicians and a discussion of a number of issues raised by the project, including musicians as designers, the potential for exploration and mastery and the transferability of instruments between performers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11
Pages249-252
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11 - Madeira, Portugal
Duration: 23 Jan 201126 Jan 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityMadeira
Period23/01/1126/01/11

Keywords

  • Augmented instruments
  • Embodied interaction
  • Interaction
  • Music
  • Tangible interfaces

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