Doctoral colloquium: The application of established gestural languages in the control mappings of free-hand gestural musical instruments

Brown, Dom

Abstract

The “mapping problem” is a long standing issue in the development of digital musical instruments, and occurs when an instrument’s musical response fails to reflect the performer’s gestural actions. This paper describes ongoing doctoral research that seeks to address this issue by studying the existing gestural languages of Soundpainting and American Sign Language in order to influence the control mappings of free-hand gestural musical instruments. The research seeks to contribute a framework of mapping strategies influenced by these gestural languages, as well as developments in the field of gesture recognition algorithms and novel evaluation methods for free-hand gestural musical instruments.

• Conference Name: International Conference on Live Interfaces
• Start Date: Jun 29, 2016
• End Date: Jul 3, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Apr 18, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jun 21, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 24, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 181-186
• Book Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Interfaces
• ISBN: 9780993199684
• Keywords: doctoral colloquium, digital musical instruments, gesture recognition, gesture communication, sign language, soundpainting, mapping
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/917249
• Publisher URL: http://www.liveinterfaces.org/
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI)
• Contract Date: Jun 21, 2016