McBlare is a robotic bagpipe player developed by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. McBlare plays a standard set of bagpipes, using a custom air compressor to s...
Roger B. Dannenberg, Ben Brown, Garth Zeglin, Ron ...
Tangible Acoustic Interfaces (TAI) rely on various acousticsensing technologies, such as sound source location and acoustic imaging, to detect the position of contact of users int...
The Sonictroller was originally conceived as a means of introducing competition into an improvisatory musical performance. By reverse-engineering a popular video game console, we ...
This paper takes the reader through various elements of the GoingPublik sound artwork for distributive ensemble and introduces the Realtime Score Synthesis tool (RSS) used as a co...
In the Expression Synthesis Project (ESP), we propose a driving interface for expression synthesis. ESP aims to provide a compelling metaphor for expressive performance so as to m...
In this paper, we describe a course of research investigating the potential for new types of music made possible by location tracking and wireless technologies. Listeners walk aro...
The Self-Contained Unified Bass Augmenter (SCUBA) is a new augmentative OSC (Open Sound Control) [5] controller for the tuba. SCUBA adds new expressive possibilities to the existi...
In this paper we describe a virtual instrument or a performance space, placed at Høje Tåstrup train station in Denmark, which is meant to establish communicative connections bet...
Ole Gregersen, Lars Pellarin, Jakob Olsen, Niels B...
As a response to a number of notable contemporary aesthetic tendencies, this paper introduces the notion of an infrainstrument as a kind of ‘new interface for musical expression...
Soundstone is a small wireless music controller that tracks movement and gestures, and maps these signals to characteristics of various synthesized and sampled sounds. It is inten...