Our new book entitled "New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction
Beyond the Keyboard" has finally been published by A-R Editions.
The book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter discusses the notion of
musical gestures, their acquisition and their mapping onto the variables of a
synthesizer. The second chapter focuses on practical issues of gestural controller
design and reviews various examples of gestural controllers. The third chapter
follows with an introduction to sensors and sensor-to-computer interfaces. It reviews
the application of these sensors in the design of various digital musical instruments
and discusses methods for converting the sensor signals onto data that can be used
to control software sound synthesizers. The following two chapters introduce the use
of electrical signals produced in the body, such as nerves, muscles, and brain
signals, to control music. It presents different types of biosignals and introduces
basic techniques to render these signals useful for musical control. Finally, chapter
five discusses an interesting route to new instrument design, which involves the
provision of artificial intelligence in order to render such instruments interactive.
More information here:
http://www.areditions.com/cmdas/DAS21/cmdas021.html
Enjoy!
Eduardo Miranda & Marcelo Wanderley
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