Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds

Georg Essl, and Sile O'Modhrain

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The Scrubber is a general controller for friction-induced sound. Allowing the user to engage in familiar gestures and feel- ing actual friction, the synthesized sound gains an evocative nature for the performer and a meaningful relationship between gesture and sound for the audience. It can control a variety of sound synthesis algorithms of which we demonstrate examples based on granular synthesis, wave-table synthesis and physically informed modeling.

Citation

Georg Essl, and Sile O'Modhrain. 2005. Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176737

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Essl2005,
 abstract = {The Scrubber is a general controller for friction-induced sound. Allowing the user to engage in familiar gestures and feel- ing actual friction, the synthesized sound gains an evocative nature for the performer and a meaningful relationship between gesture and sound for the audience. It can control a variety of sound synthesis algorithms of which we demonstrate examples based on granular synthesis, wave-table synthesis and physically informed modeling.},
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Essl, Georg and O'Modhrain, Sile},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176737},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {70--75},
 title = {Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_070.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}