Innovative Musical Controllers
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Toriton Plus
year: 2006
author(s): Sebastian Tomczak
website: http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2006/11/toriton-plus.html
Toriton Plus is using a water surface as a music controller using five lasers. The laser shines through the water in the dish, and LDR's on the other side respond to the position of the laser points. The software used for the configuration has been written using Max/MSP.
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Intimate Control Surface
year: 2008
author(s): Randall Jones
publication: Intimate Control for Physical Modeling Synthesis [PDF]
website: http://2uptech.com/intimate_control/
A new, low-cost sensor design capable of generating a 2D force signal, a new implementation of the 2D digital waveguide mesh, and two experimental computer music instruments that combine these components using different metaphors. Multidimensional connections between sensors and a physical model are found to facilitate a high degree of control intimacy, and to reproduce as emergent behavior some important phenomena associated with acoustic instruments.
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Malleable Surface Interface
year: 2004
author(s): Florian Vogt,
Timothy Chen,
Reynald Hoskinson,
Sidney Fels
affiliation: Human Communication Technologies Laboratory,
University of British Columbia
publication: A Malleable Surface Touch Interface [PDF]
website: http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/research/malleable/
The malleable surface touch interface combines a deformable input surface and video processing to provide a whole-hand interface that exhibits many attributes of conventional touch interfaces, such as multi-point and pressure sensitivity. This interface also offer passive haptic feedback, which can be effective with applications such as sculpting or massage.
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sonic banana
year: 2000
author(s): Eric Singer
affiliation: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
publication: A Novel Bend-Sensor-Based MIDI Controller [PDF]
website: http://www.ericsinger.com/workprojects.html
The Sonic Banana is a MIDI controller and alternative musical instrument in the form of a 2 foot long flexible rubber tube. Four bend sensors, each 5" long, are mounted in a row along the inside of the tube on a flexible metal bar running the length of the tube. A single pushbutton switch is mounted at the top end of the tube.
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OTTO
year: 2009
author(s): Luca de Rosso
affiliation: Visual and Multimedia Communications,
IUAV University of Venice
website: http://www.lucaderosso.com/otto/
OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for real time manual beat slicing of audio samples. It provides a tangible user interface designed with the aim of giving the user the feel of having the sample in his hands. The musician can manipulate an audio sample in real time through the use of a restricted number of simple physical buttons and switches. In computer music audio samples are generally represented as the waveform itself or as little coloured blocks. Since the sample inside OTTO as to be controlled really fast, the performer needs to quickly understand where and how to play a specific part. The sample visualization has been designed to provide just the information needed and nothing more.
