The HandSolo: A Hand Drum Controller for Natural Rhythm Entry and Production

Kunal Jathal, and Tae-Hong Park

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The majority of electronic percussion controllers on the market today are based on location-oriented striking techniques, resulting in a finger drumming interaction paradigm, that is both fundamentally eclectic as well as imposingly contr. The few controllers that allow hand-drumming techniques also invariably conform to region-based triggering design, or, in trade-off for expressivity, end up excluding hardware connectivity options that are vital to the context of the modern electronic rhythm producer. The HandSolo is a timbre-based drum controller that allows the use of natural, hand-drumming strokes, whilst offering the same end-goal functionality that percussion controller users have come to expect over the past decade.

Citation

Kunal Jathal, and Tae-Hong Park. 2016. The HandSolo: A Hand Drum Controller for Natural Rhythm Entry and Production. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176042

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Jathal2016,
 abstract = {The majority of electronic percussion controllers on the market
today are based on location-oriented striking techniques, resulting in a finger
drumming interaction paradigm, that is both fundamentally eclectic as well as
imposingly contr. The few controllers that allow hand-drumming
techniques also invariably conform to region-based triggering design, or, in
trade-off for expressivity, end up excluding hardware connectivity options that
are vital to the context of the modern electronic rhythm producer. The HandSolo
is a timbre-based drum controller that allows the use of natural, hand-drumming
strokes, whilst offering the same end-goal functionality that percussion
controller users have come to expect over the past decade.},
 address = {Brisbane, Australia},
 author = {Kunal Jathal and Tae-Hong Park},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176042},
 isbn = {978-1-925455-13-7},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {218--223},
 publisher = {Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University},
 title = {The HandSolo: A Hand Drum Controller for Natural Rhythm Entry and Production},
 track = {Papers},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2016/nime2016_paper0044.pdf},
 year = {2016}
}