Physical Interfaces for Music 250a

by Michael Gurevich

Dichotomies

• Toys
  • Perry Cook -- Fillup Glass
  • Gary Scavone -- Phoney Controller
  • Joe Paradiso -- Musical Trinkets
  • Michael Gurevich & Stephan von Muehlen -- Accordiatron

• Inspired by Instruments
  • Michael Gurevich & Stephan von Muehlen -- Accordiatron

Michel Waisvisz -- The Hands

• Sonification
  • Rego Sen, Wai Kit Leung, Ariege Misherghi -- Foosball Live (133M)
  • Toriton Plus

• Pre-programmed vs. Performed
  • Brian Rulifson et al. -- GPS Sonification (18M)
  • David Lowenfels -- Grid Drum (22M)

• Cartoon Sounds vs. Musical Sounds
  • Rego Sen -- Jack in the Box (58M)
  • Yamaha / Toshio Iwai -- Tenori-on (video)

• 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 musical instruments
  • Talking piano -- Talking piano
  • Collin Oldham - Cellomobo
  • Edgar Berdahl - Haptic drum

• No haptic feedback vs. haptic feedback
  • Gypsy Motion capture MIDI controller -- DJ and Drums
  • Collin Oldham - Cellomobo
  • Edgar Berdahl - Haptic drum

Commercial cotrollers: Haken Audio's Continuum Fingerboard

Lightning Thunder

Trueman and Cook Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array

Lemur robot playing music Jazzmutant Lemur

Yamaha Miburi

PID 2009