Mountain Guitar : a Musical Instrument for Everyone

Junichi Kanebako, James Gibson, and Laurent Mignonneau

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2007
• Location: New York City, NY, United States
• Pages: 396–398
• Keywords: Musical Expression, Guitar Instrument, MIDI to sensor mapping, Physical Computing, Intuitive Interaction
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177133 (Link to paper)
• PDF link

Abstract:

This instrument is a part of the “Gangu Project” at IAMAS, which aim to develop digital toys for improving children’s social behavior in the future. It was further developed as part of the IAMAS-Interface Cultures exchange program. “Mountain Guitar” is a new musical instrument that enables musical expression through a custom-made sensor technology, which captures and transforms the height at which the instrument is held to the musical outcome during the playing session. One of the goals of “Mountain Guitar” is to let untrained users easily and intuitively play guitar through their body movements. In addition to capturing the users’ body movements, “Mountain Guitar” also simulates standard guitar playing techniques such as vibrato, choking, and mute. “Mountain Guitar’s” goal is to provide playing pleasure for guitar training sessions. This poster describes the “Mountain Guitar’s” fundamental principles and its mode of operation.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Kanebako2007,
 abstract = {This instrument is a part of the “Gangu Project” at IAMAS, which aim to develop digital toys for improving children’s social behavior in the future. It was further developed as part of the IAMAS-Interface Cultures exchange program. “Mountain Guitar” is a new musical instrument that enables musical expression through a custom-made sensor technology, which captures and transforms the height at which the instrument is held to the musical outcome during the playing session. One of the goals of “Mountain Guitar” is to let untrained users easily and intuitively play guitar through their body movements. In addition to capturing the users’ body movements, “Mountain Guitar” also simulates standard guitar playing techniques such as vibrato, choking, and mute. “Mountain Guitar’s” goal is to provide playing pleasure for guitar training sessions. This poster describes the “Mountain Guitar’s” fundamental principles and its mode of operation.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Kanebako, Junichi and Gibson, James and Mignonneau, Laurent},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177133},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Musical Expression, Guitar Instrument, MIDI to sensor mapping, Physical Computing, Intuitive Interaction},
 pages = {396--398},
 title = {Mountain Guitar : a Musical Instrument for Everyone},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_396.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}