[ISEA2010] Paper: Luca De Rosso – OTTO: Musical Instrument for Realtime Manual Beat Slicing

Abstract

OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing. The beat slicing is a well developed technique used mostly in electronic music, by means of what short rhythmical audio samples, of a few seconds in length, are cut into pieces to separate the main drum hits. These slices are then re-arranged in time, stretched, reversed, pitched up or down and so on, in order to create a completely new rhythmical section which could ideally last forever with continuous changes. The purpose of this project was to design specific controls for a technique that doesn’t have a specific hardware yet. The device provides a tangible user interface designed with the aim of giving the user the feeling of having the sample in his hands. The performer can manipulate an audio sample in real time through the use of a restricted number of physical controls and clear visual feedbacks

  • Luca De Rosso (IT) is an interaction designer graduated in 2009 at IUAV University of Venice after attending the IxD program led by Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor. In 2008 Luca did a five-months internship at IDEO Inc in Palo Alto, CA. He now works as a IxD consultant and sound designer. lucaderosso.com

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