Freqtric Drums : A Musical Instrument that Uses Skin Contact as an Interface

Tetsuaki Baba, Taketoshi Ushiama, and Kiyoshi Tomimatsu

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Freqtric Drums is a new musical, corporal electronic instrument that allows us not only to recover face-to-face communication, but also makes possible body-to-body communication so that a self image based on the sense of being a separate body can be signicant altered through an openness toand even a sense of becoming part of another body. FreqtricDrums is a device that turns audiences surrounding a performer into drums so that the performer, as a drummer, cancommunicate with audience members as if they were a setof drums. We describe our concept and the implementationand process of evolution of Freqtric Drums.

Citation:

Tetsuaki Baba, Taketoshi Ushiama, and Kiyoshi Tomimatsu. 2007. Freqtric Drums : A Musical Instrument that Uses Skin Contact as an Interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177037

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Baba2007,
 abstract = {Freqtric Drums is a new musical, corporal electronic instrument that allows us not only to recover face-to-face communication, but also makes possible body-to-body communication so that a self image based on the sense of being a separate body can be signicant altered through an openness toand even a sense of becoming part of another body. FreqtricDrums is a device that turns audiences surrounding a performer into drums so that the performer, as a drummer, cancommunicate with audience members as if they were a setof drums. We describe our concept and the implementationand process of evolution of Freqtric Drums.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Baba, Tetsuaki and Ushiama, Taketoshi and Tomimatsu, Kiyoshi},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177037},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {interpersonal communication, musical instrument, interaction design, skin contact, touch },
 pages = {386--387},
 title = {Freqtric Drums : A Musical Instrument that Uses Skin Contact as an Interface},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_386.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}