Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds

The Scrubber is a general controller for friction-induced sound. Allowing the user to engage in familiar gestures and feeling actual friction, the synthesized sound gains an evocative nature for the performer and a meaningful relationship between gesture and sound for the audience. It can control a variety of sound synthesis algorithms of which we demonstrate examples based on granular synthesis, wave-table synthesis and physically informed modeling.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: NIME
• Authors: Georg Essl, M. Sile O'Modhrain
• Keywords: Familiar Gestures, Friction-induced Sound, Music, NIME 2005, Sound Synthesis Algorithms