Hugo Scurto, 2018
motion capture, Max/MSP, unsupervised learning
Connected drumsticks that autonomously produce drum sounds. A person freely waves the sticks in the air to trigger recorded drum sounds and explore how these sounds influence their motion. An Online Gaussian Mixture Model learns a dynamic mapping between motion data and drum sounds, leaving controls indeterminate for the person. Somasticks thus illuminate the somatic side of drumming practice, by focusing on internal bodily sensations produced by drum sounds.