Bruno Zamborlin Demonstrates The Mogees
January 4, 2012 in Technology
Bruno Zamborlin, a PHD student at London University, has contacted us regarding something he calls the Mogees. Details are not very specific, but the device consists of a “very cheap contact microphone” that is utilized to recognize different types of fingers inputs in a variety of gestures. In addition, being a contact mic allows it to “transform any surface into an interactive board.”
The Mogees features realtime gesture recognition that allows a user to “play” different virtual music instruments using a technique called physic modelling.
In the video below Zamborlin claims to use two different audio synthesis techniques:
1- physic[al] 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.
Mooges has been developed in collaboration with Norbert Schnell and takes full advantage of the MuBu environment for MaxMSP. Bruno also asserts that a “mobile version would be definitely possible.”