The sound of touch

  • Authors:
  • David Merrill;Hayes Raffle

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab;MIT Media Lab

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 posters
  • Year:
  • 2007
  • Opportunistic music

    JVRC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Joint virtual reality Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments

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Abstract

All people have experienced hearing sounds produced when they touch and manipulate different materials. We know what it will sound like to bang our fist against a wooden door, or to crumple a piece of newspaper. We can imagine what a coffee mug will sound like if it is dropped onto a concrete floor. But our wealth of experience handling physical materials does not typically produce much intuition for operating a new electronic instrument, given the inherently arbitrary mapping from gesture to sound.