Zstretch: a stretchy fabric music controller

  • Authors:
  • Angela Chang;Hiroshi Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present Zstretch, a textile music controller that supports expressive haptic interactions. The musical controller takes advantage of the fabric's topological constraints to enable proportional control of musical parameters. This novel interface explores ways in which one might treat music as a sheet of cloth. This paper proposes an approach to engage simple technologies for supporting ordinary hand interactions. We show that this combination of basic technology with general tactile movements can result in an expressive musical interface.