The Elbow Piano : Sonification of Piano Playing Movements

Aristotelis Hadjakos, Erwin Aitenbichler, and Max Mühlhäuser

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The Elbow Piano distinguishes two types of piano touch: a touchwith movement in the elbow joint and a touch without. A playednote is first mapped to the left or right hand by visual tracking.Custom-built goniometers attached to the player's arms are usedto detect the type of touch. The two different types of touchesare sonified by different instrument sounds. This gives theplayer an increased awareness of his elbow movements, which isconsidered valuable for piano education. We have implementedthe system and evaluated it with a group of music students.

Citation:

Aristotelis Hadjakos, Erwin Aitenbichler, and Max Mühlhäuser. 2008. The Elbow Piano : Sonification of Piano Playing Movements. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179553

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Hadjakos2008,
 abstract = {The Elbow Piano distinguishes two types of piano touch: a touchwith movement in the elbow joint and a touch without. A playednote is first mapped to the left or right hand by visual tracking.Custom-built goniometers attached to the player's arms are usedto detect the type of touch. The two different types of touchesare sonified by different instrument sounds. This gives theplayer an increased awareness of his elbow movements, which isconsidered valuable for piano education. We have implementedthe system and evaluated it with a group of music students.},
 address = {Genoa, Italy},
 author = {Hadjakos, Aristotelis and Aitenbichler, Erwin and M\''{u}hlh\''{a}user, Max},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179553},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Piano, education, sonification, feedback, gesture. },
 pages = {285--288},
 title = {The Elbow Piano : Sonification of Piano Playing Movements},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_285.pdf},
 year = {2008}
}