reAcoustic eGuitar

Credits: Amit Zoran and Pattie Maes

reAcoustic eGuitar is a concept design of an instrument that enables players to customize their own sound by assembling different sound cells instead of a single large sound box. Each string will have it’s own bridge, each bridge will be connected to a different cell. changing the cell size, material or structure will allow sound design innovations, re-designing acoustic musical instrument according to the abilities and characteristics of rapid prototype materials.

Publications:

Zoran, Amit and Pattie Maes. 2008. “Considering Virtual & Physical Aspects in Acoustic Guitar Design.” 8th International Conference New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’08), 5-7 June 2008, Genova, Italy.

Zoran, Amit and Pattie Maes. 2008. “The reAcoustic eGuitar.” In SIGGRAPH 2008 posters (SIGGRAPH '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 40.

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