Title :
Demo abstract: Sensor-enabled Yo-yos as new musical instruments
Author :
Jung-Hyun Jun ; Sunardi ; Lijuan Wang ; Matthys, Joel W. ; Lui, Simon ; Yu Gu
Author_Institution :
Singapore Univ. of Technol. & Design, Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
An interactive and reprogrammable musical yo-yo system is designed. The aim of it is to demonstrate the feasibility of converting any sensor-enabled objects into potential musical instruments. This involves three design phases. First, the physical yo-yo is designed to house Iris sensors. The software is developed to sense the movement of yo-yo and transmit its measurements to Max/MSP for corresponding music generation. Finally, aurally pleasing and real-time musical sounds are designed and generated in effect of yo-yo by the computer music composer.
Keywords :
measurement systems; musical instruments; sensors; Iris sensor; computer music composer; interactive reprogrammable musical yo-yo system; music generation; musical instrument; musical sound; sensor-enabled yo-yo; Gyroscopes; Instruments; Iris; Middleware; Sensors; Spinning; Wireless sensor networks; Cyber-physical objects; Musical instru-ment; Wireless sensor networks, MaxMSP, Yo; yo;
Conference_Titel :
Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920933
