Grain Prism: Hieroglyphic Interface for Granular Sampling

Gabriela Bila Advincula, Don Derek Haddad, and Kent Larson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper introduces the Grain Prism, a hybrid of a granular synthesizer and sampler that, through a capacitive sensing interface presented in obscure glyphs, invites users to create experimental sound textures with their own recorded voice. The capacitive sensing system, activated through skin contact over single glyphs or a combination of them, instigates the user to decipher the hidden sonic messages. The mysterious interface open space to aleatoricism in the act of conjuring sound, and therefore new discoveries. The users, when forced to abandon preconceived ways of playing a synthesizer, look at themselves in a different light, as their voice is the source material.

Citation:

Gabriela Bila Advincula, Don Derek Haddad, and Kent Larson. 2019. Grain Prism: Hieroglyphic Interface for Granular Sampling. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3672960

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Advincula2019,
 abstract = {This paper introduces the Grain Prism, a hybrid of a granular synthesizer and sampler that, through a capacitive sensing interface presented in obscure glyphs, invites users to create experimental sound textures with their own recorded voice. The capacitive sensing system, activated through skin contact over single glyphs or a combination of them, instigates the user to decipher the hidden sonic messages. The mysterious interface open space to aleatoricism in the act of conjuring sound, and therefore new discoveries. The users, when forced to abandon preconceived ways of playing a synthesizer, look at themselves in a different light, as their voice is the source material.},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {Gabriela Bila Advincula and Don Derek Haddad and Kent Larson},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3672960},
 editor = {Marcelo Queiroz and Anna Xambó Sedó},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {284--285},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {Grain Prism: Hieroglyphic Interface for Granular Sampling},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_paper054.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}