Augmented Violin
From IMTR
The Augmented Violin project brings together the development of movement capture and wireless data transmission modules with R&D on multimodal analysis and modelisation focussing on the performance of bowed string instruments. Applications of this work include artistic as well as pedagogical projects (see below).
The prototype of the augmented violin is developed at IRCAM by Emmanuel Flety, Nicolas Leroy and Matthias Demoucron. The data captured the prototype include bow acceleration, angular velocitya and bow pressure.
The heart of the augmented violin is a removable module attached to the frog of the bow including a 3D accelerometer and gyroscope. The data are sampled at 200Hz sand 12bit resolution and transmitted wirelessly to a computer using the OSC protocol.
References
- N. Rasamimanana, E. Fléty, F. Bevilacqua « Gesture Analysis of Violin Bow Strokes », Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3881, 145-155, 2006
- F. Bevilacqua, N. Rasamimanana, E. Fléty, S. Lemouton, F. Baschet « The augmented violin project: research, composition and performance report », 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 06), Paris, 2006
- N. Leroy, E. Fléty, F. Bevilacqua « Reflective Optical Pickup For Violin », 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2006
- E. Schoonderwaldt, N. Rasamimanana, F. Bevilacqua « Combining accelerometer and video camera: Reconstruction of bow velocity profiles », 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2006