This document discusses augmenting the expression of a plucked string electric instrument like guitar. It explores measuring and capturing guitar playing movements and patterns to interface the player with the instrument in new ways, as technology has modified other parts of the signal path but not the playing itself. The goal is to advance how stringed instruments are played by incorporating technology into the performance.

1. AUGMENTING
the expression of a plucked
string electric instrument
Sergio Majluf
April 16h, 2013

2. WHAT AM I DOING?
I’m exploring the movements and
patterns emerging from guitar playing,
addressing those findings by measuring
and/or capturing the expressions as a
new way of interfacing the player with
a musical instrument.

3. WHAT AM I DOING?
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4. WHY?
As technology advances, stringed
instruments – electric guitars – have
stayed mostly unmodified for as long
as 85 years.
However, there is technology
elsewhere in the signal path.

5. WHY?
There is technology in the signal
processing, modeling, amplifying,
even synthesis...

6. WHY
... but there’s not much technology in
playing or performing.

7. WHAT IF, THEN?

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