Air Violin: A Body-centric Style Musical Instrument

Xin Fan, and Georg Essl

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

We show how body-centric sensing can be integrated in musical interface toenable more flexible gestural control. We present a barehanded body-centricinteraction paradigm where users are able to interact in a spontaneous waythroughperforming gestures. The paradigm employs a wearable camera and see-throughdisplay to enable flexible interaction in the 3D space. We designed andimplemented a prototype called Air Violin, a virtual musical instrument usingdepth camera, to demonstrate the proposed interaction paradigm. We describedthe design and implementation details.

Citation

Xin Fan, and Georg Essl. 2013. Air Violin: A Body-centric Style Musical Instrument. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178512 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Fan2013,
 abstract = {We show how body-centric sensing can be integrated in musical interface toenable more flexible gestural control. We present a barehanded body-centricinteraction paradigm where users are able to interact in a spontaneous waythroughperforming gestures. The paradigm employs a wearable camera and see-throughdisplay to enable flexible interaction in the 3D space. We designed andimplemented a prototype called Air Violin, a virtual musical instrument usingdepth camera, to demonstrate the proposed interaction paradigm. We describedthe design and implementation details.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Xin Fan and Georg Essl},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178512},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {NIME, musical instrument, interaction, gesture, Kinect},
 month = {May},
 pages = {122--123},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Air Violin: A Body-centric Style Musical Instrument},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_149.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}