Cutaneous grooves: composing for the sense of touch

  • Authors:
  • Eric Gunther;Glorianna Davenport;Sile O'Modhrain

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • NIME '02 Proceedings of the 2002 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel coupling of haptics technology and music, introducing the notion of tactile composition or aesthetic composition for the sense of touch. A system that facilitates the composition and perception of intricate, musically structured spatio-temporal patterns of vibration on the surface of the body is described. An initial test of the system in a performance context is discussed. The fundamental building blocks of a compositional language for touch are considered.