Abstract
A digital musical instrument is different from an acoustic one because its gesture controllers are decoupled from the sound synthesis. Because of this, it is possible to separately design the control interface and the sound synthesis independently, and then digitally implement the gesture-sound mapping. This allows diverse possibilities for musical expression. A particular kind of digital musical instruments are musical gloves. They can capture the hand gestures, which are later mapped into sounds. By means of electronic sensors and digital sound synthesis, this work consisted of building a musical glove. In the development of the work the gesture-sound mapping and sound possibilities were explored in an embedded system with low computational resources.
Highlights
A digital musical instrument is different from an acoustic one because its gesture controllers are decoupled from the sound synthesis
We explored the possibilities brought by the new instrument in musical sessions, evaluating the gesture-sound mapping
The data is processed in the Pure Data environment and used as synthesis parameters
Summary
Introduction A digital musical instrument is different from an acoustic one because its gesture controllers are decoupled from the sound synthesis. It is possible to separately design the control interface and the sound synthesis independently, and digitally implement the gesture-sound mapping. In this work we developed a musical glove using the following methodology. We developed a data acquisition device based on a microcontroller and electronic sensors.
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