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When people play music together, they move their bodies, and that movement plays an important role in the activity of group music making. In contrast, when robots play music with people, the robots are usually stiff and mechanical in their movement. In ...

This paper presents a case study of a fully working prototype of the Sensus smart guitar. Eleven professional guitar players were interviewed after a prototype test session. The smartness of the guitar was perceived as enabling the integration of a ...

The accurate recognition of guitarist performance is challenging compared with other instruments because a guitar player typically plays several notes at once and uses both hands in different ways. In this paper, we propose a sensor-based guitar that ...

We explore how physical artefacts can be connected to digital records of where they have been, who they have encountered and what has happened to them, and how this can enhance their meaning and utility. We describe how a travelling technology probe in ...

Carolan is an acoustic guitar that has been decorated with interactive patterns that can be scanned using a mobile camera so as to connect to a digital record of how the instrument was made, where it has been and who has played it. Carolan was created ...

Every guitar tells a story, from the provenance of its tonewoods, to the craft of its making, to the players that own it, to the places it visits, to the many songs that it plays. I will tell you the story of a unique guitar, one that has been created ...

This paper describes the implementation of gestural mapping strategies for performance with a traditional musical instrument and electronics. The approach adopted is informed by embodied music cognition and functional categories of musical gestures. ...

In this paper we describe a wristwatch-like device using a 3-axis gyro sensor to determine how a player is strumming the guitar. The device was worn on the right-handed player's right hand to evaluate the strumming action, which is important to play the ...

The guitar is one of the most widespread instruments amongst autodidacts, but even though a huge amount of learning material exists, it is still hard to learn especially without a guitar teacher. In this paper we propose an Augmented Reality concept ...

The guitar is one of the most widespread instruments amongst autodidacts, but even though a huge amount of learning material exists, it is still hard to learn especially without a guitar teacher. In this paper we propose an Augmented Reality application ...

Physically inspired sound synthesis techniques have been devised for several instruments including guitar. Less well studied are methods to model the interactions of the player with strings and of the strings with other mechanical parts of the ...

Physically inspired sound synthesis techniques have been devised for several instruments including guitar. Less well studied are methods to model the interactions of the player with strings and of the strings with other mechanical parts of the ...

In this video we present a special guitar that combines physical acoustic properties with virtual capabilities. A wooden resonator - a unique, replaceable piece of wood that gives the guitar a unique acoustic sound, will embody the acoustical values. ...

This study proposes a method for learning musical instruments using computer graphics. The conventional musical instrument learning systems have been considered as simple game controllers or simple score processors. This study produced an education ...

The guitar pick has traditionally been used to strike or rake the strings of a guitar or bass, and in rarer instances, a shamisen, lute, or other stringed instrument. The pressure exerted on it, however, has until now been ignored. The MIDI Pick, an ...

Public competition has been a part of the human experience for at least all of recorded history. The same is true for music. Modal Kombat is a live guitar competition channeled through the video game Mortal Kombat. The performance work builds on the ...

In this paper we describe a new guitar-like musical controller. The 'GXtar' is an instrument which takes as a starting point a guitar but his role is to bring different and new musical possibilities while preserving the spirit and techniques of guitar. ...

The Sonictroller was originally conceived as a means of introducing competition into an improvisatory musical performance. By reverse-engineering a popular video game console, we were able to map sound information (volume, pitch, and pitch sequences) to ...

This paper describes the determination of optimal finger position for guitar performance for melodies. In general, when performing a given melody with a guitar, several finger positions are possible, and when beginners are playing, often it is difficult ...

In this paper, we describe a multi-level approach for the extraction of instrumental gesture parameters taken from the characteristics of the signal captured by a microphone and based on the knowledge of physical mechanisms taking place on the ...