Flag beat: a novel interface for rhythmic musical expression for kids

Stefano Trento, and Stefania Serafin

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a prototype of a sonic toy forpre-scholar kids. The device, which is a modified version of a footballratchet, is based on the spinning gesture and it allows to experience fourdifferent types of auditory feedback. These algorithms let a kid play withmusic rhythm, generate a continuous sound feedback and control the pitch of apiece of music. An evaluation test of the device has been performed withfourteen kids in a kindergarten. Results and observations showed that kidspreferred the algorithms based on the exploration of the music rhythm and onpitch shifting.

Citation

Stefano Trento, and Stefania Serafin. 2013. Flag beat: a novel interface for rhythmic musical expression for kids. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178682 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2013_Trento,
 abstract = {This paper describes the development of a prototype of a sonic toy forpre-scholar kids. The device, which is a modified version of a footballratchet, is based on the spinning gesture and it allows to experience fourdifferent types of auditory feedback. These algorithms let a kid play withmusic rhythm, generate a continuous sound feedback and control the pitch of apiece of music. An evaluation test of the device has been performed withfourteen kids in a kindergarten. Results and observations showed that kidspreferred the algorithms based on the exploration of the music rhythm and onpitch shifting.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Stefano Trento and Stefania Serafin},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178682},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Sonic toy, children, auditory feedback.},
 month = {May},
 pages = {456--459},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Flag beat: a novel interface for rhythmic musical expression for kids},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_295.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}