Designing Digital Musical Instruments Using Probatio
A Physical Prototyping Toolkit
Authors: Calegario, Filipe
Free Preview- 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
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Challenges in Designing DMIs
Pages 5-17
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Design Process
Pages 19-30
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State of the Art
Pages 31-43
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Early Exploration
Pages 45-53
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Designing Digital Musical Instruments Using Probatio
- Book Subtitle
- A Physical Prototyping Toolkit
- Authors
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- Filipe Calegario
- Series Title
- Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-02892-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-02892-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-02891-6
- Series ISSN
- 2509-6575
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 152
- Number of Illustrations
- 24 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
- Topics