Thanks Eduardo and congratulations -

This maybe of potential for our education in Medialogy - can you arrange the publishers to send a review copy to decide if a possible course book.

Regards

Tony Brooks
Associate Professor
Medialogy
Research and Development park
Aalborg University Esbjerg
Niels Bohrs vej 8
6700 Esbjerg
Denmark

Tel: +45 79127716 - Fax: +45 79127710
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Guest Editor "Digital Creativity" www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14626268.asp

On 17 Jul 2006, at 10:45, Eduardo Miranda wrote:

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