Keynote Speakers

Don Buchla. A History of Buchla's Musical Instruments.

1

Golan Levin. A Personal Chronology of Audiovisual Systems Research.

2

Bill Buxton. Causality and Striking the Right Note.

4

Paper and Report Sessions

Session 1: Concepts, Aesthetics, and Collaboration

John Bowers and Phil Archer. Not Hyper, Not Meta, Not Cyber but Infra-Instruments.

5

Teemu Mäki-Patola, Aki Kanerva, Juha Laitinen and Tapio Takala. Experiments with Virtual Reality Instruments.

11

Gil Weinberg and Scott Driscoll. "iltur" - Connecting Novices and Experts Through Collaborative Improvisation.

17

Sergi Jordà. Multi-user Instruments: Models, Examples and Promises.

23

Tina Blaine. The Convergence of Alternate Controllers and Musical Interfaces in Interactive Entertainment.

27

Session 2: NIME Implementations

Dan Overholt. The Overtone Violin.

34

Juan Pablo Cáceres, Gautham J. Mysore and Jeffrey Treviño. SCUBA: The Self-Contained Unified Bass Augmenter.

38

Elliot Sinyor and Marcelo M. Wanderley. Gyrotyre. A Hand-held Dynamic Computer-Music Controller Based on a Spinning Wheel.

42

Angelo Fraietta. The Smart Controller Workbench.

46

Eric Singer. A Large-Scale Networked Robotic Musical Instrument Installation.

50

Jesse T. Allison and Timothy A. Place. Teabox: A Sensor Data Interface System.

56

Session 3: Pot-Pourri

Sageev Oore. Learning Advanced Skills on New Instruments (or practising scales and arpeggios on your NIME).

60

Dan Livingstone and Eduardo Miranda. Orb3 - Adaptive Interface for Realtime Sound Synthesis & Diffusion within Socially Mediated Spaces.

65

Georg Essl and Sile O'Modhrain. Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds.

70

Peter Swendsen and David Topper. Wireless Dance Control: PAIR and WISEAR.

76

Roger B. Dannenberg, Ben Brown, Garth Zeglin and Ron Lupish. McBlare: A Robotic Bagpipe Player.

80

Session 4: Mapping for NIME

Frederic Bevilacqua, Remy Muller and Norbert Schnell. MnM: a Max/MSP mapping toolbox.

85

Jean-Marc Pelletier. A Graphical Interface for Intuitive Signal Routing.

89

Gary Scavone and Andrey da Silva. Frequency Content of Breath Pressure and Implications for Use in Control.

93

Alain Crevoisier and Pietro Polotti. Tangible Acoustic Interfaces and their Applications for the Design of New Musical Instruments.

97

Ross Bencina. The Metasurface: Applying Natural Neighbour Interpolation to Two-to-Many Mapping.

101

Andrey R. da Silva, Marcelo Wanderley and Gary Scavone. On the Use of Flute Air Jet as A Musical Control Variable.

105

Session 5: Voice, Gestural Control and Multimodality

Xavier Rodet, Jean-Philippe Lambert, Roland Cahen, Thomas Gaudy, Florian Gosselin, Fabrice Guedy and Pascal Mobuchon. Sound and music control using haptic and visual feedback in the PHASE installation.

109

Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman. Sounds from Shapes: Audiovisual Performance with Hand Silhouette Contours in The Manual Input Sessions.

115

Tomoko Yonezawa, Noriko Suzuki, Kenji Mase and Kiyoshi Kogure. HandySinger: Expressive Singing Voice Morphing using Personified Hand-puppet Interface.

121

Mathias Funk, Kazuhiro Kuwabara and Michael J. Lyons. Sonification of Facial Actions for Musical Expression.

127

Jordi Janer. Voice-controlled plucked bass guitar through two synthesis techniques.

132

Session 6: Learning, Tools + Connectivity

Paul D. Lehrman. Bridging the Gap Between Art and Science Education Through Teaching Electronic Musical Instrument Design.

136

Hans-Christoph Steiner. The [hid] toolkit: a unified framework for instrument design.

140

Teemu Mäki-Patola. User Interface Comparison for Virtual Drums.

144

Arthur Clay, Thomas Frey and Jürg Gutknecht. GoingPublik: Using Realtime Global Score Synthesis.

148

Ole Gregersen, Lars Pellarin, Jakob Olsen, Niels Böttcher, Michel Guglielmi and Stefania Serafin. Connecting strangers at a train station.

152

Greg Schiemer and Mark Havryliv. Pocket Gamelan: a Pure Data interface for java phones.

156