Digitally Augmented Everyday Objects in Music Composition

Abstract—This paper discusses three instances of compositions, in which physical and cyber everyday objects interact. The physical objects such as plastic corrugated tubes, plastic superballs, glass marbles, cocktail shakers, electric blenders, and others provide unique musical data for the performance and input data for their physically modeled counterparts. Besides the compositional strategies, the article focuses on the software and hardware issues connected with tracking, parametrical mapping, interfacing, and physical modeling of everyday objects