Mogees - Gesture recognition with contact-microphones
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Ever wonder what a tree, or a skateboard, or maybe even your best friend's back would sound like if it could sing? Well, stop. Using nothing more than some state-of-the-art high tech radicalness and a hefty dose of creativity this group of engineers has designed a device that turns any surface into a playable instrument. It's called a MOGEE and we want one now.
Ever wonder what a tree, or a skateboard, or maybe even your best friend's back would sound like if it could sing? Well, stop. Using nothing more than some state-of-the-art high tech radicalness and a hefty dose of creativity this group of engineers has designed a device that turns any surface into a playable instrument. It's called a MOGEE and we want one now.
In this video we show how it is possible to perform gesture recognition just with contact microphones and transform every surface into an interactive board.
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds.
In the video we used two different audio synthesis techniques:
1- physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;
2- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.
The system can recognise both fingers-touches and objects that emit a sound, such as the coin shown in the video.
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