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Muscular Interactions. Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical practice

Marco Donnarumma, Baptiste Caramiaux, and Atau Tanaka

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

We present the first combined use of the electromyogram (EMG) andmechanomyogram (MMG), two biosignals that result from muscular activity, forinteractive music applications. We exploit differences between these twosignals, as reported in the biomedical literature, to create bi-modalsonification and sound synthesis mappings that allow performers to distinguishthe two components in a single complex arm gesture. We study non-expertplayers' ability to articulate the different modalities. Results show thatpurposely designed gestures and mapping techniques enable novices to rapidlylearn to independently control the two biosignals.

Citation

Marco Donnarumma, Baptiste Caramiaux, and Atau Tanaka. 2013. Muscular Interactions. Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical practice. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178504 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2013_Donnarumma,
author = {Marco Donnarumma and Baptiste Caramiaux and Atau Tanaka},
title = {Muscular Interactions. Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical practice},
pages = {128--131},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2013},
month = {May},
publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178504},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_90.pdf},
keywords = {NIME, sensorimotor system, EMG, MMG, biosignal, multimodal, mapping},
abstract = {We present the first combined use of the electromyogram (EMG) andmechanomyogram (MMG), two biosignals that result from muscular activity, forinteractive music applications. We exploit differences between these twosignals, as reported in the biomedical literature, to create bi-modalsonification and sound synthesis mappings that allow performers to distinguishthe two components in a single complex arm gesture. We study non-expertplayers' ability to articulate the different modalities. Results show thatpurposely designed gestures and mapping techniques enable novices to rapidlylearn to independently control the two biosignals.}
}