Example Gestural Controllers

The following videos are loosely grouped according to Eduardo Miranda and Marcelo Wanderley, "New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard," A-R Editions, 2006.

Some Categories

• Augmented Instruments
  • Talking piano -- Talking piano
  • Per Bloland, Steven Backer, and Edgar Berdahl -- Electromagnetically Prepared Piano

• Instrument-Like Controllers
  • Wind synthesis (Ex. #2)
  • Standard MIDI keyboards

• Instrument-Inspired Controllers
  • Maurice Martenot Ondes Martenot
  • Michael Gurevich & Stephan von Muehlen -- Accordiatron
  • Trueman and Cook Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array

• Motivated by Rich Metaphors
  • Michel Waisvisz -- The Hands
  • Joe Paradiso -- Musical Trinkets
  • Perry Cook -- Fillup Glass
  • Gary Scavone -- Phoney Controller
  • Mark Hauenstein -- Audio Shaker
  • David Birnbaum -- Rulers

• Multiple Performers
  • Sid Fels -- Tooka
  • Jorda -- Reactable
  • David Merrill, Tim Hankins, Jocelyn Robert -- COOL (120M)
  • Rodrigo Segnini, Hiroko Terasawa, Vivian Woo -- Sound Kitchen (42M)

• Robotic/haptic musical instruments
  • Collin Oldham - Cellomobo
  • Edgar Berdahl - Haptic drum
  • Eigenfeldt and Kapur -- Mahadevibot
  • Lemur robot playing music

• Sonification
  • Toriton Plus
  • Paul Dimarinis Rain Dance
  • Paul Dimarinis Fire Birds

• Commercial controllers
  • Max Mathews' Radio Baton
  • Don Buchla's Lightning
  • Don Buchla's Thunder
  • Haken Audio's Continuum Fingerboard
  • Yamaha / Toshio Iwai -- Tenori-on (video)
  • Jazzmutant Lemur
  • Yamaha Miburi (similar to Gypsy Motion -- DJ and Drums)

Note: Links to videos were put here by Edgar Berdahl and Michael Gurevich.

More Information

Gurevich's old lecture Gurevich's old lecture

PID 2009