Playing Music using Contactless Gestures

Abstract

Throughout history and since the beginning of times, people have created various musical instruments suited for their own traditional music and culture. These various instruments gave birth to many beautiful musical notes that live up until today. Therefore, regardless of one’s cultural background or language, we can safely assume that everyone enjoys a certain style of music. However, since musical instruments originated roughly around 37,000 years ago (where there was absolutely no technology), the only way to play music has always been by using one’s hands. This way of playing an instrument has been passed down all the way until this day. Even though music has been developing since the day it originated up until today, people have created ways that make music sound different. Nowadays, a lot of, if not most, of the music we hear today is either computerized, or altered by a computer. However, people have only focused on altering the way the music sounds, but there was little, if no, attention given to the way music is played. Moreover, music is known to have a lot of positive side effects on the practitioner as well as the listener; but we are more focused on the practitioner in this paper. Nowadays a lot of people are willing to learn how to play musical instruments such as the guitar, the drums, the piano, etc. However, a lot of people are either unable to have access to musical facilities or are unable to purchase a musical instrument for the sole purpose of personal entertainment. Therefore, a lot of people slack on playing musical instruments or just fail at it. Moreover, some musicians try to look for creative new techniques to experiment with music

4 | P a g e electronically in order to improve the quality of their music or simply just to create something new. However, there are very few creative ways to play musical instruments. This project aims to make playing and learning music easy and accessible to everyone everywhere while also being a new one of a kind experience.