Kinesynth: Patching, Modulating, and Mixing a Hybrid Kinesthetic Synthesizer.

Don Derek Haddad, and Joe Paradiso

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper introduces the Kinesynth, a hybrid kinesthetic synthesizer that uses the human body as both an analog mixer and as a modulator using a combination of capacitive sensing in "transmit" mode and skin conductance. This is achieved when the body, through the skin, relays signals from control & audio sources to the inputs of the instrument. These signals can be harnessed from the environment, from within the Kinesynth's internal synthesizer, or from external instrument, making the Kinesynth a mediator between the body and the environment.

Citation

Don Derek Haddad, and Joe Paradiso. 2018. Kinesynth: Patching, Modulating, and Mixing a Hybrid Kinesthetic Synthesizer.. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1302669 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2018_Haddad,
abstract = {This paper introduces the Kinesynth, a hybrid kinesthetic synthesizer that uses the human body as both an analog mixer and as a modulator using a combination of capacitive sensing in "transmit" mode and skin conductance. This is achieved when the body, through the skin, relays signals from control & audio sources to the inputs of the instrument. These signals can be harnessed from the environment, from within the Kinesynth's internal synthesizer, or from external instrument, making the Kinesynth a mediator between the body and the environment.},
address = {Blacksburg, Virginia, USA},
author = {Don Derek Haddad and Joe Paradiso},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1302669},
editor = {Luke Dahl, Douglas Bowman, Thomas Martin},
isbn = {978-1-949373-99-8},
issn = {2220-4806},
month = {June},
pages = {35--36},
publisher = {Virginia Tech},
title = {Kinesynth: Patching, Modulating, and Mixing a Hybrid Kinesthetic Synthesizer.},
url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2018/nime2018_paper0009.pdf},
year = {2018}
}