DRUMMERWORLD - The World of Drummers and Drums. Drummerszone.com. Drum Lessons, Hand Drums - DRUM BUM - Hand Drumming Lessons - Percussion, Congas, Djembes, Bongos, Percussion, Drums, - DRUM LESSONS / DRUM TABS - Over 500 Free Drum Lessons and Drum Tabs! #1Drums and Percussion Music Education site for drum lesson plans, Hammerax | Percussion Instruments | Drum Cymbals, Bells, Gongs, FX. Zildjian Cymbals. Matt Nolan Custom Cymbals, Gongs and other Metal Percussion Sound Sculptures - main navigation page. Radio Drum. The Radio Drum is an analyzer of gestural data. It is a three- dimensional controller, a sort of computerized musical drum. Invented in the late 1980’s, the Radio Drum uses the “jeu de jacquet” or “Backgammon” form of capacitive sensing to interpret the gestures of a performer.
The drumsticks or mallets transmit a radio frequency that is detected by the drum surface. Each drumstick operates at a different frequency. There are four analog signals for each of the drumsticks generated by antennas situated at the four corners of the drum. Figure from ATT Bell Laboratory Radio Drum Manual By using a displacement algorithm, the four signals can be transformed into three data channels representing the x,y,z displacement versus time. Various drumming motions can be characterized by the signals generated by the drumsticks versus antennas displacements. Sick Drummer Magazine | The First Ever Interactive Digital Drumming Magazine. Radio Drum. To create the next-generation Radio Drum. Note that ultimately it might not be a "Radio" Drum.
The technology might end up being different. It must be a 3-dimensional controller that "doubles" as a drum. That is, it senses the space above a surface, but it also can be played like a drum, and identify "whacks" and different kinds of gestures, bounces, etc. The fist-generation Radio Drum was designed by Bob Boie and built at Bell Labs in the mid-1980's as a "three-dimensional mouse. " The Radio Drum itself could be called a "gesture sensor" that keeps constant track of the 3-dimensional spatial location of mallets in the following way: A small amount of wire is wrapped around the end of each of two sticks and acts as a conducting surface electrically driven by a radio frequency voltage source.
We have several copies of the original Boie drum (in fact we have all of them still in existence), and we have a design for a "wireless" version in progress. 1. 1. Written by Dr. Drum rudiments: fundamental and hybrid rudiments (Rudimenti fondamentali e ibridi) « KarmaDrums. Videos | Frame Drum, Cajon, Percussion - David Kuckhermann.
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