AlphaSphere

Place, Adam; Lacey, Liam; Mitchell, Thomas

Abstract

The AlphaSphere is an electronic musical instrument featuring a series of tactile, pressure sensitive touch pads arranged in a spherical form. It is designed to offer a new playing style, while allowing for the expressive real-time modulation of sound available in electronic-based music. It is also designed to be programmable, enabling the flexibility to map a series of different notational arrangements to the pad-based interface.

The AlphaSphere functions as an HID, MIDI and OSC device, which connects to a computer and/or independent MIDI device, and its control messages can be mapped through the AlphaLive software. Our primary motivations for creating the AlphaSphere are to design an expressive music interface which can exploit the sound palate of synthesizers1 in a design which allows for the mapping of notational arrangements.

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
• Start Date: May 27, 2013
• End Date: May 30, 2013
• Publication Date: May 1, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 24, 2019
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: AlphaSphere, MIDI, HID, polyphonic aftertouch, open source, music technology, UWE
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1436074
• Additional Information: Additional Information : [e-mail] [e-mail]; Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME2013