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The urban musical game: using sport balls as musical interfaces

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Nicolas Rasamimanana,

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CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212377

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We present Urban Musical Game, an installation using augmented sports balls to manipulate and transform an interactive music environment. The interaction is based on playing techniques, a concept borrowed from traditional music instruments and applied here to non musical objects.

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CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2012

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ISBN:9781450310161

DOI:10.1145/2212776

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