Project Number

176

Title

d-rhum

Description

Interactive music installation involving mechanical drumming through sensor arrays.

Contact

Daniel Schwartz

Affiliation

RomeBlack, Inc.

Address

180 Varick Street, Suite 12A 
New York, New York 10014

E-mail

dls@romeblack.com

WWW

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"d-rhum (drum room) is a room that responds to the presence and movement of its occupants. 
 
Computers translate sensor data into commands to motors that stretch, push, move and distort walls, and strike drums with mallets. 
 
Visitors interact with the room and soon discover that they can interact with aspects of the movements and sounds of the room by coordinating movements. "They are encouraged to play the room like drums with random and deliberate movements around the sensors."

Sight

animated, sculptured room rigged with sensors and motors driven by Pentium PCs

Sound

Touch

sensor-driven drums

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

5 - Established, Finished

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

205 - tangible / gesture interface

Secondary

302 - spatial sound

Remarks

 


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