Ergotic Sounds: A New Way to Improve Playability, Believability and Presence of Digital Musical Instruments

Annie Luciani (1) , Jean-Loup Florens (1) , Damien Couroussé (1) , Claude Cadoz (1)

1 ACROE - ACROE

We explore here is how "ergotic gestural-sound situation", i.e. the situation in which the instrumental gesture and the produced sound are intimately energetically linked, is a way to guaranty the playability, the believability and the presence of the musical digital instrument. The chosen experimental situation is the evaluation of a musical pattern on a bowed string performance that consists in maintaining the continuity of the sound when changing the bow direction. We present some surprising results, thanks to the hiqh quality real time "cello-like" haptic simulation, implemented on the ERGOS haptic technology.

Domaines: Informatique; Psychologie; Son [cs.SD]

Annie Luciani, Jean-Loup Florens, Damien Couroussé, Claude Cadoz. Ergotic Sounds: A New Way to Improve Playability, Believability and Presence of Digital Musical Instruments. ENACTIVE / 07 - International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Nov 2007, Grenoble, France. pp.373-376. ⟨hal-00440953⟩