All Outputs (39)

How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure? (2017)
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Standard western notation supports the understanding and performance of music, but has limited provisions for revealing overall musical characteristics and structure. This paper presents several visualisers for highlighting and providing insights int... Read More about How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure?.

A user experience review of music interaction evaluations (2017)
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The need for thorough evaluations is an emerging area of interest and importance in music interaction research. As a large degree of DMI evaluation is concerned with exploring the subjective experience: ergonomics, action-sound mappings and control i... Read More about A user experience review of music interaction evaluations.

Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion (2016)
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Camera-based motion tracking has become a popular enabling technology for gestural human-computer interaction. However, the approach suffers from several limitations, which have been shown to be particularly problematic when employed within musical c... Read More about Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion.

Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation (2016)
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Interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) is a powerful human-machine optimisation procedure for evolving solutions to complex design problems. In this paper we introduce the novel concept of Tangible Interactive Evolutionary Computation (TIEC), lev... Read More about Tangible interfaces for interactive evolutionary computation.

Evolving atomic aesthetics and dynamics (2016)
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The depiction of atoms and molecules in scientific literature owes as much to the creative imagination of scientists as it does to scientific theory and experimentation. danceroom Spectroscopy (dS... Read More about Evolving atomic aesthetics and dynamics.

Simple synchronisation for open sound control (2015)
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Clock synchronisation is a mature and important aspect of distributed computing systems. Despite the importance of accurate timing in music, there are relatively few widely applicable synchronisation solutions available to computer music practitioner... Read More about Simple synchronisation for open sound control.

Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument (2014)
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Molecular Music is an offshoot of a long-term collaborative project, the multi- award winning danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)[1]. dS has its roots in computational molecular dynamics, and was originally conceived to serve as an interactive platform for m... Read More about Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument.

Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices (2014)
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This paper details the development of Turnector, a control system based upon tangible widgets that are manipulated on the touchscreen of a capacitive touch device. Turnector widgets are modelled on rotary faders and aim to connect the user to paramet... Read More about Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices.

Controlling physically based virtual musical instruments using the gloves (2014)
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In this paper we propose an empirical method to develop mapping strategies between a gestural-based interface (the Gloves) and physically based sound synthesis models. An experiment was conducted to investigate which gestures listeners associate with... Read More about Controlling physically based virtual musical instruments using the gloves.

AlphaSphere: From prototype to product (2014)
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This paper explores the design process of the AlphaSphere, an experimental new musical instrument that has transitioned into scale production and international distribution. Initially, the design intentions and engineering processes are covered.
The... Read More about AlphaSphere: From prototype to product.

Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance (2014)
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Wireless technology is growing increasingly prevalent in the development of new interfaces for live music performance. However, with a number of different wireless technologies operating in the 2.4 GHz band, there is a high risk of interference and c... Read More about Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance.

x-OSC: A versatile wireless I/O device for creative/music applications (2013)
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This paper introduces x-OSC: a WiFi-based I/O board intended to provide developers of digital musical instruments with a versatile tool for interfacing software to the physical world via OSC messages. x-OSC features 32 I/O channels supporting multipl... Read More about x-OSC: A versatile wireless I/O device for creative/music applications.

AlphaSphere (2013)
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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 soun... Read More about AlphaSphere.

Musical interaction with hand posture and orientation: A toolbox of gestural control mechanisms (2012)
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This paper presents a toolbox of gestural control mechanisms which are available when the input sensing apparatus is a pair of data gloves fitted with orientation sensors. The toolbox was developed in advance of a live music performance in which the... Read More about Musical interaction with hand posture and orientation: A toolbox of gestural control mechanisms.

SoundGrasp: A gestural interface for the performance of live music (2011)
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This paper documents the first developmental phase of an interface that enables the performance of live music using gestures and body movements. The work included focuses on the first step of this project: the composition and performance of live musi... Read More about SoundGrasp: A gestural interface for the performance of live music.

Evolutionary sound matching: A test methodology and comparative study (2007)
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With the ever-increasing complexity of sound synthesisers, there is a growing demand for automated parameter estimation and sound space navigation techniques. Recent research in this domain has focused on the application of general-purpose evolutiona... Read More about Evolutionary sound matching: A test methodology and comparative study.

Frequency modulation tone matching using a fuzzy clustering evolution strategy (2005)
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Frequency Modulation parameter estimation has provided a continual challenge to researchers since its first application to audio synthesis over thirty years ago. Recent research has made use of basic evolutionary optimisation algorithms to evolve sou... Read More about Frequency modulation tone matching using a fuzzy clustering evolution strategy.

Convergence synthesis of dynamic frequency modulation tones using an evolution strategy (2005)
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This paper reports on steps that have been taken to enhance previously presented evolutionary sound matching work. In doing so, the convergence characteristics are shown to provide a synthesis method that produces interesting sounds. The method imple... Read More about Convergence synthesis of dynamic frequency modulation tones using an evolution strategy.

danceroom Spectroscopy: Interactive quantum molecular dynamics accelerated on GPU architectures using OpenCL
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danceroom Spectroscopy (dS) is an interactive audiovisual installation and performance tool built from algorithms commonly used to simulate and analyze quantum molecular dynamics. Using an array of up to seven simultaneous depth sensors, dS literally... Read More about danceroom Spectroscopy: Interactive quantum molecular dynamics accelerated on GPU architectures using OpenCL.