INTERACTIVE PHYSICAL DESIGN AND HAPTIC PLAYING OF VIRTUAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

James Leonard (1) , Claude Cadoz (1) , Jean-Loup Florens (1) , Nicolas Castagné (2)

1 ACROE - ACROE
2 Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology

In Computer Music, a practical approach of many Digital Musical Instruments is to separate the gestural input stage from the sound synthesis stage. While these instruments offer many creative possibilities, they present a strong rupture with traditional acoustic instruments, as the physical coupling between human and sound is broken. This coupling plays a crucial role for the expressive musical playing of acoustic instruments; we believe restoring it in a digital context is of equal importance for revealing the full expressive potential of digital instruments. This paper first presents haptic and physical modelling technologies for representing the mechano-acoustical instrumental situation in the context of DMIs. From these technologies, a prototype environment has been implemented for both designing virtual musical instruments and interacting with them via a force feedback device, able to preserve the energetic coherency of the musician-sound chain.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Modélisation et simulation; Son [cs.SD]

James Leonard, Claude Cadoz, Jean-Loup Florens, Nicolas Castagné. INTERACTIVE PHYSICAL DESIGN AND HAPTIC PLAYING OF VIRTUAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. International Computer Music Conference, Aug 2013, Perth, Australia. pp.108-115. ⟨hal-01089222⟩