Overview
- Digital musical instruments (DMIs) are artistic interactive objects in which gestural control and sound production are physically decoupled but digitally mapped
- Interactive artistic approaches can teach valuable lessons applicable to other levels of design and human-computer interaction
- Useful for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the areas of musical creativity and human-computer interaction
Part of the book series: Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems (CSACS)
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About this book
The author presents Probatio, a toolkit for building functional DMI (digital musical instruments) prototypes, artifacts in which gestural control and sound production are physically decoupled but digitally mapped. He uses the concept of instrumental inheritance, the application of gestural and/or structural components of existing instruments to generate ideas for new instruments. To support analysis and combination, he then leverages a traditional design method, the morphological chart, in which existing artifacts are split into parts, presented in a visual form and then recombined to produce new ideas. And finally he integrates the concept and the method in a concrete object, a physical prototyping toolkit for building functional DMI prototypes: Probatio. The author's evaluation of this modular system shows it reduces the time required to develop functional prototypes.
The book is useful for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the areas of musical creativity and human-computer interaction, in particular those engaged in generating, communicating, and testing ideas in complex design spaces.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Designing Digital Musical Instruments Using Probatio
Book Subtitle: A Physical Prototyping Toolkit
Authors: Filipe Calegario
Series Title: Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02892-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02891-6Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02892-3Published: 24 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2509-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 152
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Music, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Creativity and Arts Education, Interaction Design