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In this paper, we describe a musical controller -the WaveSawfor directly manipulating a wavetable. The WaveSaw consists of a long, flexible metal strip with handles on either end, somewhat analogous to a saw. The user plays the WaveSaw by holding the handles and bending the metal strip. We use sensors to measure the strip's curvature and reconstruct its shape as a wavetable stored in a computer. This provides a direct gestural mapping from the shape of the WaveSaw to the timbral characteristics of the computer-generated sound. Additional sensors provide control of pitch, amplitude, and other musical parameters.

Author

Luke Dahl; Nathan Whetsell; John Van Stoecker

Publisher

ACM Press

Published

2007

Language

EN