De-Mo: designing action-sound relationships with the mo interfaces.

The Modular Musical Objects (MO) are an ensemble of tangible interfaces and software modules for creating novel musical instruments or for augmenting objects with sound. In particular, the MOs allow for designing action-sound relationships and behaviors based on the interaction with tangible objects or free body movements. Such interaction scenarios can be inspired by the affordances of particular objects (e.g. a ball, a table), by interaction metaphors based on the playing techniques of musical instruments or games. We describe specific examples of action-sound relationships that are made possible by the MO software modules and which take advantage of machine learning techniques.