SoniMime: Movement Sonification for Real-Time Timbre Shaping

Jesse Fox, and Jennifer Carlile

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the design of SoniMime, a system forthe sonification of hand movement for real-time timbre shaping. We explore the application of the tristimulus timbremodel for the sonification of gestural data, working towardthe goals of musical expressivity and physical responsiveness. SoniMime uses two 3-D accelerometers connected toan Atmel microprocessor which outputs OSC control messages. Data filtering, parameter mapping, and sound synthesis take place in Pd running on a Linux computer.

Citation

Jesse Fox, and Jennifer Carlile. 2005. SoniMime: Movement Sonification for Real-Time Timbre Shaping. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176741

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Fox2005,
 abstract = {This paper describes the design of SoniMime, a system forthe sonification of hand movement for real-time timbre shaping. We explore the application of the tristimulus timbremodel for the sonification of gestural data, working towardthe goals of musical expressivity and physical responsiveness. SoniMime uses two 3-D accelerometers connected toan Atmel microprocessor which outputs OSC control messages. Data filtering, parameter mapping, and sound synthesis take place in Pd running on a Linux computer.},
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Fox, Jesse and Carlile, Jennifer},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176741},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Sonification, Musical Controller, Human Computer Interaction },
 pages = {242--243},
 title = {SoniMime: Movement Sonification for Real-Time Timbre Shaping},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_242.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}