Textural Crossfader

Matthew Blessing, and Edgar Berdahl

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2015
• Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
• Pages: 180–181
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179032 (Link to paper)
• PDF link
• Supplementary File 1: 0337-file1.mp4
• Supplementary File 2: 0337-file2.mov

Abstract:

A LapBox derivative, the Textural Crossfader is a keyboard-based embedded acoustic instrument, which sits comfortably across the performer's lap and radiates sound out of integrated stereo speakers. The performer controls the sound by manipulating the keys on a pair of mini-keyboard interfaces. A unique one-to-one mapping enables the performer to precisely crossfade among a set of looped audio wave files, creating a conveniently portable system for navigating through a complex timbre space. The axes of the timbre space can be reconfigured by replacing the wave files stored in the flash memory.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{mblessing2015,
 abstract = {A LapBox derivative, the Textural Crossfader is a keyboard-based embedded acoustic instrument, which sits comfortably across the performer's lap and radiates sound out of integrated stereo speakers. The performer controls the sound by manipulating the keys on a pair of mini-keyboard interfaces. A unique one-to-one mapping enables the performer to precisely crossfade among a set of looped audio wave files, creating a conveniently portable system for navigating through a complex timbre space. The axes of the timbre space can be reconfigured by replacing the wave files stored in the flash memory.},
 address = {Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA},
 author = {Matthew Blessing and Edgar Berdahl},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179032},
 editor = {Edgar Berdahl and Jesse Allison},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {May},
 pages = {180--181},
 publisher = {Louisiana State University},
 title = {Textural Crossfader},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/nime2015_337.pdf},
 urlsuppl1 = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/337/0337-file1.mp4},
 urlsuppl2 = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/337/0337-file2.mov},
 year = {2015}
}