Osiris: a liquid based digital musical instrument

Martín Matus Lerner

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the process of creation of a new digital musical instrument: Osiris. This device is based on the circulation of liquids for the generation of musical notes. Besides the system of liquid distribution, a module that generates MIDI events was designed and built based on the Arduino platform; such module is employed together with a Proteus 2000 sound generator. The programming of the control module as well as the choice of sound-generating module had as their main objective that the instrument should provide an ample variety of sound and musical possibilities, controllable in real time.

Citation

Martín Matus Lerner. 2017. Osiris: a liquid based digital musical instrument. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176169 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{mlerner2017,
 abstract = {This paper describes the process of creation of a new digital musical instrument: Osiris. This device is based on the circulation of liquids for the generation of musical notes. Besides the system of liquid distribution, a module that generates MIDI events was designed and built based on the Arduino platform; such module is employed together with a Proteus 2000 sound generator.  The programming of the control module as well as the choice of sound-generating module had as their main objective that the instrument should provide an ample variety of sound and musical possibilities, controllable in real time.},
 address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
 author = {Matus Lerner, Martín},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176169},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {52--55},
 publisher = {Aalborg University Copenhagen},
 title = {Osiris: a liquid based digital musical instrument},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2017/nime2017_paper0011.pdf},
 year = {2017}
}