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Helical Keyboard

Michael Cohen,
Assistant Professor, Human Interface Laboratory

Inspired by the cyclical nature of octaves, we prepared a model of a piano-style keyboard in Mathematica, which was then geometrically warped into a helical configuration, one octave/revolution, pitch mapped to height. Our model is imported into VRML, where it is driven by MIDI events, which stream is both synthesized and spatialized by a spatial sound backend.


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October 1996