Benedict Gaster's Outputs (17)

In between: Ghostly control through slowness and the relational (2024)
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This presentation is about space and sustainability, exploring Massey’s theory of space and how it can enform musical interface design. In particular, how something can be imagined from the old and remade anew.

Insights into how digital luthiers approach design (2024)
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The design of digital musical instruments represents a complex role that incorporates creative practice, design and engineering. It is, of course, a deep discussion topic and research focus within the NIME community. This paper discusses how digital... Read More about Insights into how digital luthiers approach design.

Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools (2022)
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Digital lutherie is a sub-domain of digital craft focused on creating digital musical instruments: high-performance devices for musical expression. It represents a nuanced and challenging area of human-computer interaction that is well established an... Read More about Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools.

HyperModels - A framework for GPU accelerated physical modelling sound synthesis (2022)
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Physical modelling sound synthesis methods generate vast and intricate sound spaces that are navigated using meaningful parameters. Numerical based physical modelling nsynthesis methods provide authentic representations of the physics they model. Unf... Read More about HyperModels - A framework for GPU accelerated physical modelling sound synthesis.

Bespoke anywhere (2021)
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This paper reports on a project aimed to break away from the portability concerns of native DSP code between different platforms, thus freeing the instrument designer from the burden of porting new Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) to different arch... Read More about Bespoke anywhere.

Audio Anywhere with Faust (2020)
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This paper introduces \emph{Audio Anywhere} (\emph{AA}), a framework for working with audio plugins that are compiled once and run anywhere. At the heart of Audio Anywhere is an audio engine whose Digital Signal Processing (DSP) components are writte... Read More about Audio Anywhere with Faust.

PlayShell: A low-cost, fun audio experience for heritage centres (2020)
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Various barriers prevent blind and visually impaired people accessing the rich multisensory experiences available at heritage centres. These barriers include large bodies of text and items in glass cases, which are difficult to see. Feedback from the... Read More about PlayShell: A low-cost, fun audio experience for heritage centres.

There and Back Again: The Practicality of GPU Accelerated Digital Audio (2020)
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General-Purpose GPU computing is becoming an increas-ingly viable option for acceleration, including in the audiodomain. Although it can improve performance, the intrin-sic nature of a device like the GPU involves data transfersand execution commands... Read More about There and Back Again: The Practicality of GPU Accelerated Digital Audio.

Shouting through letterboxes: A study on attack susceptibility of voice assistants (2020)
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Voice assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have become increasingly popular for many home users, for home automation, entertainment, and convenience. These devices process speech commands from a user to execute some action, such as playing... Read More about Shouting through letterboxes: A study on attack susceptibility of voice assistants.

Printing the Muses: Reimaging digital musical instruments through 2.5D printing (2019)
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The objective is to explore cross-disciplinary methods of converting musical terms for tactile interfaces, thus enabling people unfamiliar in creating music to be explorative through the development of novel musical interfaces. The project involves w... Read More about Printing the Muses: Reimaging digital musical instruments through 2.5D printing.

Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm (2019)
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Music provides a means to explore time by sequencing musical events in a seemingly endless and expressive way. This potential often far exceeds the ability of digital systems to enable composers and performers to explore musical time, perhaps due to... Read More about Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm.

Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression) (2019)
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In this paper we address the design and implementation of custom controller interfaces, bridging the issue of user mapping between action and sound in interactive music systems. A simple framework utilizing functional specifications for musical inter... Read More about Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression).

OpenCL vs: Accelerated finite-difference digital synthesis (2019)
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© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. Digital audio synthesis has become an important component of modern music production with techniques that can produce realistic simulations of real instruments. Physica... Read More about OpenCL vs: Accelerated finite-difference digital synthesis.

Return to temperament (In digital systems) (2018)
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Considering the generation of musical tunings, it is reasonable to expect that the many constructs contained in Functional programming languages may provide useful tools for exploring both conventional and new tunings. In this paper we present a numb... Read More about Return to temperament (In digital systems).

Outside the block syndicate: Translating Faust's algebra of blocks to the arrows framework (2018)
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Folklore has it that Faust’s algebra of blocks can be represented in Hughes’ algebra of Arrows. In this paper we formalise this understanding, showing that blocks can indeed be encoded with Causal Commutative Arrows.
Whilst an interesting finding in... Read More about Outside the block syndicate: Translating Faust's algebra of blocks to the arrows framework.

LoRaWAN Bristol (2017)
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The Bristol LoRaWAN Network is a low power radio network for the Internet of Things, based on LoRaWAN and utilising The Things Network. LoRaWAN is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) specification intended for wireless battery operated Things in re... Read More about LoRaWAN Bristol.

Heterogeneous-race-free memory models (2014)
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Commodity heterogeneous systems (e.g., integrated CPUs and GPUs), now support a unified, shared memory address space for all components. Because the latency of global communication in a heterogeneous system can be prohibitively high, heterogeneous sy... Read More about Heterogeneous-race-free memory models.