New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interactions Beyond the Keyboard

In New Digital Musical Instruments Eduardo Reck Miranda And Marcelo Mortensen Wanderley Focus On Musical Instruments That Use The Computer As The Main Sound-generating Device. Such Instruments Often Consist Of A Gestural Controller Driving The Musical Parameters Of A Sound Synthesizer In Real-time. Over The Last Few Decades A Community That Remained Largely Marginalized By The Academy And Industry For A Number Of Years Has Been The Source Of Various Interesting Developments In This Area. Apart From A Few Papers Scattered In Various Journals And The Proceedings Of The Relatively New Nime (new Interfaces For Musical Expression) Conference, There Is No Concise Literature On This Fascinating New Topic. This Book Is An Attempts To Introduce Such Developments And Inform Researchers And Musicians Interested In Designing New Digital Instruments With Control And Interaction Beyond The Conventional Keyboard Paradigm.--jacket. Musical Gestures -- Gestural Controllers -- Sensors And Sensor-to-computer Interfaces -- Biosignal Interfaces -- Toward Intelligent Musical Instruments. Eduardo R. Miranda And Marcelo M. Wanderley ; With A Foreword By Ross Kirk. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-283) And Index. Front Cover Title Page 1 Musical Gestures: Acquisition and Mapping 2 Gestural Controllers 3 Sensors and Sensor-to-Computer Interfaces 4 Biosignal Interfaces 5 Toward Intelligent Musical Instruments Epilogue References Appendix: The Accompanying CD-Rom Index Back Cover Musical gestures Gestural controllers Sensors and sensor-to-computer interfaces Biosignal interfaces Towards intelligent musical instruments. Book by Eduardo Reck Miranda, Marcelo Wanderley