MOGEES (Mosaicing Gestural Surface)

MOGEES, which uses "realtime gesture recognition with contact microphones," is a recent technology that could have interesting applications for audio performance among other sound design situations.

According to the developers, MOGEES utilizes:

physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;

- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.

This basically means that the microphone senses a vibration and turns that vibration into a waveform which a computer can turn into a sound, or trigger another sound (similar to MIDI).