Wednesday, May 27, 2009

[amqdezbu] Multi touch music

Multitouch handheld devices these days, all which have sound out, may be an interesting device to develop a new musical instrument. They have enough degrees of freedom. The low-hanging fruit is some sort of ambient drone generator for electronic music.

Tangentially. Most, if not all, musical instruments are a combination of discrete and continuous (digital and analog) tactile interfaces. For trombone, the discreteness is hidden in the lip harmonics.

Piano keys have a great degree of different responses depending on the "touch", or the velocity of pushing down the key. Harpsichords do not, however. They are entirely discrete, and not too popular an instrument.

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