Designs for an Expressive Mechatronic Chordophone

Juan Pablo Yepez Placencia,Dale A. Carnegie,Jim W. Murphy,Juan Pablo Yepez Placencia,Dale A. Carnegie,Jim W. Murphy

Plucked strings are an exciting sound generation model for technical and timbral exploration. Mechatronic chordophones take advantage of this model and have been the focus of extensive research and exploration in musical robotics, often used as stand-alone instruments or as part of sound art installations. However, no existing chordophone designs have utilised the expressive potential of plucked s...