Project Number
- 243
Title
- musicBottles
Description
- Tangible music interface for three corked bottles that contain the sounds of Édouard Lalo's Piano Trio.
Contact
- Hiroshi Ishii
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street, E15-485
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street, E15-485
- ishii@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "musicBottles introduces a tangible interface that deploys bottles as containers and controls for digital information. The system consists of a specifically designed table and three corked bottles that 'contain' the sounds of the violin, the cello, and the piano in Édouard Lalo's Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 7."
- "Custom-designed electromagnetic tags embedded in the bottles enable each one to be wirelessly identified. When a bottle is placed onto the stage area of the table and the cork removed, the corresponding instrument becomes audible. A pattern of colored light is rear-projected onto the table's translucent surface to reflect changes in pitch and volume."
- "The interface allows users to structure the experience of the musical composition by physically manipulating the different sound tracks."
Sight
- physical glass bottles with electromagnetic tags
Sound
- amplified synchronized sound
Touch
- corks
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
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