Bubbaboard and Mommaspeaker: Creating Digital Tonal Sounds from an Acoustic Percussive Instrument

Derek Wang

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the transformation of an everyday object into a digital musical instrument. By tracking hand movements and tilt on one of two axes, the Bubbaboard, a transformed handheld washboard, allows a user to play scales at different octaves while simultaneously offering the ability to use its inherent acoustic percussive qualities. Processed sound is fed to the Mommaspeaker, which creates physically generated vibrato at a speed determined by tilting the Bubbaboard on its second axis.

Citation

Derek Wang. 2005. Bubbaboard and Mommaspeaker: Creating Digital Tonal Sounds from an Acoustic Percussive Instrument. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176836

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Wang2005,
 abstract = {This paper describes the transformation of an everyday object into a digital musical instrument. By tracking hand movements and tilt on one of two axes, the Bubbaboard, a transformed handheld washboard, allows a user to play scales at different octaves while simultaneously offering the ability to use its inherent acoustic percussive qualities. Processed sound is fed to the Mommaspeaker, which creates physically generated vibrato at a speed determined by tilting the Bubbaboard on its second axis. },
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Wang, Derek},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176836},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Gesture based controllers, Musical Performance, MIDI, Accelerometer, Microcontroller, Contact Microphone },
 pages = {264--265},
 title = {Bubbaboard and Mommaspeaker: Creating Digital Tonal Sounds from an Acoustic Percussive Instrument},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_264.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}