Shaping Sounds - A Vision for Tangible Music Interaction

In this article the idea of music composing with an elastic tabletop including tangible objects embedded into its surface is described. An elastic display dynamically creates several physical shapes representing different music samples for interaction. The shapes can be activated and manipulated by the user to arrange the associated samples. The key benefits of this form of interaction are the intuitive use, the ability to playfully explore music and the expressiveness of the physical representation of sound. Figure 1: The proposed interactive deformable surface.