Example Interfaces
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.
For some historical perspectives, look up the father of computer music or google some prior electronic musical instruments such as the Theremin, the Ondes Martenot, the Trautonium, or the Electronic Sackbut.
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
- Robotic/haptic musical instruments
- Collin Oldham - Cellomobo
- Edgar Berdahl - Haptic drum
- Eigenfeldt and Kapur -- Mahadevibot
- Lemur robot playing music
- Alternate Physical Interfaces
- 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)
- Sonification
- Motivated by Rich Metaphors
- 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 Michael Gurevich and Edgar Berdahl.
More Information
Gurevich's old lecture Gurevich's old lecture