Sensing String Displacement as a Control Modality: Sensor Design and Implementation

While stringed instruments are a major part of musical practice across cultures, DMIs in which strings are the primary control interface remain rare. In an effort to support the creation of new stringed DMIs we describe an approach to instrument design in which the static 2-dimensional displacement of strings is a primary control modality. We review a variety of sensing techniques for this application, including optoelectronic, electro-magnetic field, resistive, and force. After establishing a set of design criteria we describe our design process as well as implementation and analysis of a transmission mode optoelectronic sensor.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Knappe, Silvia Elena

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Hattwick, Ian
• Egozy, Eran

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• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

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• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144687

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/144687