Bangarama: Creating Music With Headbanging

Laszlo Bardos, Stefan Korinek, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Bangarama is a music controller using headbanging as the primary interaction metaphor. It consists of a head-mounted tilt sensor and aguitar-shaped controller that does not require complex finger positions. We discuss the specific challenges of designing and building this controller to create a simple, yet responsive and playable instrument, and show how ordinary materials such as plywood, tinfoil, and copper wire can be turned into a device that enables a fun, collaborative music-making experience.

Citation:

Laszlo Bardos, Stefan Korinek, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. 2005. Bangarama: Creating Music With Headbanging. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176699

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Bardos2005,
 abstract = {Bangarama is a music controller using headbanging as the primary interaction metaphor. It consists of a head-mounted tilt sensor and aguitar-shaped controller that does not require complex finger positions. We discuss the specific challenges of designing and building this controller to create a simple, yet responsive and playable instrument, and show how ordinary materials such as plywood, tinfoil, and copper wire can be turned into a device that enables a fun, collaborative music-making experience.},
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Bardos, Laszlo and Korinek, Stefan and Lee, Eric and Borchers, Jan},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176699},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {head movements, music controllers, interface design, input devices },
 pages = {180--183},
 title = {Bangarama: Creating Music With Headbanging},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_180.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}