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Analysis of a Genuine Scratch Performance

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Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction (GW 2003)

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The art form of manipulating vinyl records done by disc jockeys (DJs) is called scratching, and has become very popular since its start in the seventies. Since then turntables are commonly used as expressive musical instruments in several musical genres. This phenomenon has had a serious impact on the instrument-making industry, as the sales of turntables and related equipment have boosted. Despite of this, the acoustics of scratching has been barely studied until now. In this paper, we illustrate the complexity of scratching by measuring the gestures of one DJ during a performance. The analysis of these measurements is important to consider in the design of a scratch model.

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  1. Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen & Roberto Bresin

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  1. Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen
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  1. InfoMus Lab, DIST- University of Genova, Viale Causa 13, I-16145, Genova, Italy

    Antonio Camurri

  2. InfoMus Lab, DIST University of Genova, Viale Causa 13, I-16145, Genova, Italy

    Gualtiero Volpe

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Hansen, K.F., Bresin, R. (2004). Analysis of a Genuine Scratch Performance. In: Camurri, A., Volpe, G. (eds) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24598-8_48

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