Project Number
- 271
Title
- Musical Trinkets: New Pieces to Play
Description
- Musical performance through a tangible interface of physical trinkets.
Contact
- Joseph Paradiso
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street, E15-351
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street, E15-351
- joep@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- In Musical Trinkets, users interact with 15 tagged objects to perform music that is smoothly varied through tag manipulation (proximity, orientation, pressure).
- "A swept-frequency resonant tag reader optimized for real-time user interaction and measurement of several continuous parameters enables users to interact with music and graphics in unusual ways [through manipulation of the tagged objects]. When inserted into the measurement volume (roughly a one-foot cube atop the sensing surface), each object varies a different set of musical parameters or rules."
- Since they don't interfere with each other, all tags can be used simultaneously, some of them using multiple tags for higher degrees of control.
Sight
- tagged physical trinkets, sensor surface
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- tagged physical trinkets, sensor surface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 307 - art / commentary
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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