Designs for an Expressive Mechatronic Chordophone

Plucked strings are an exciting sound generation model for technical and timbral exploration. Mechatronic chordophones take advantage of this model and have been the focus of extensive research and exploration in musical robotics, often used as stand-alone instruments or as part of sound art install...

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Main Authors: Yepez Placencia, Juan Pablo, Carnegie, Dale A., Murphy, Jim W.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Actuators
Instruments
Mechatronics
Music
Prototypes
Robots
Solenoids
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Summary:Plucked strings are an exciting sound generation model for technical and timbral exploration. Mechatronic chordophones take advantage of this model and have been the focus of extensive research and exploration in musical robotics, often used as stand-alone instruments or as part of sound art installations. However, no existing chordophone designs have utilised the expressive potential of plucked strings to their full extent.In this paper, we introduce an expressive mechatronic mono-chord that serves as a prototyping platform for the construction of a polystring chordophone. This new chordophone has been developed to offer enhanced dynamic range, fast picking speeds, fast pitch shifter displacement, and additional expressive techniques compared to existing systems.
ISSN:2577-087X
DOI:10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197255