A new technology developed by researchers in Britain and France could add a novel audio aspect to interactive digital out-of-home media.
Screenmedia expo runs 16-17 May at Earls Court in London; Zamborlin speaks at 10am on the second day. Called Mogees, it enables any surface to be transformed into a musical instrument simply by placing a contact microphone on it and connecting speakers.
Said Bruno Zamborlin of Goldsmiths College, London, who will be speaking about Mogees in the free learning programme at Screenmedia Expo: “Through pattern recognition and audio synthesis techniques, the system can distinguish between different types of touch on the surface near the microphone and so be able to associate them with different playback sounds.
“Mogees is able to learn from the performer. Users can record different sounds, such as tapping and rubbing in different ways and using different physical objects, such as a pencil and keys for example, and associate each type of touch with a different musical instrument because of the different sound it makes.”