A Tangible Musical Sequencer Using Overlays
The Tquencer is a tangible musical sequencer device, developed by Martin Kaltenbrunner and Jens Vetter. It introduces several physical design elements that allow the development of musical complexity, while maintaining the overall simplicity of tangible interaction. These tangible elements include single-step, multi-step and resizable tokens, which can be arranged to trigger musical events, multi-step sound effects and more complex sequence patterns. Furthermore the device also allows the dynamic assignment of the content and behavior of physical tokens through dedicated configuration tokens. We also introduce tangible overlays, which allow the handling and arrangement of multiple musical configurations in various layers.
Paper + Demo at TEI 2018: Tquencer: A Tangible Musical Sequencer Using Overlays
Future plans include further development, the production devices for Beta-Testing and may include the production of a purchaseable devices.
Related Publications
Sonic Interactions - Towards Accessible Digital Music-Making
Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 19th International Conference, ICCHP 2024, Linz, Austria, July 8–12, 2024
- Jens Vetter,
- Martin Kaltenbrunner,
- Erich Schmid,
- 2024
Interactive spatial audio diffusion: The pendulum haptic interface prototype
11th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction MIDI Conference
- Pavel Husa,
- Vojtech Leischner,
- Martin Kaltenbrunner,
- Enrique Tomás,
- 2023
Embodied Gestures
TU Wien Academic Press
- Enrique Tomás,
- Thomas Gorbach,
- Hilda Tellioglu,
- Martin Kaltenbrunner,
- 2022