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Oroboro: Collaborative Music Controller with Interpersonal Haptic Feedback

OROBORO is a novel collaborative controller which focuses on musical performance as social experience by exploring synchronized actions of two musicians operating a single instrument. Each performer uses two paddle mechanisms – one for hand orientation sensing and one for servo-motor actuated feedback. We introduce a haptic mirror in which the movement of one performer’s sensed hand is used to induce movement of the partner’s actuated hand and vice versa.
Published as demo in the NIME2005 proceedings (pdf).
(Björn Hartmann and Jennifer Carlile; CCRMA Music 250 project)