Gestroviser: Toward Collaborative Agency in Digital Musical Instruments.

William Marley, and Nicholas Ward

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2015
• Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
• Pages: 140–143
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179124 (Link to paper)
• PDF link
• Supplementary File 1: 0287-file1.mp4

Abstract:

This paper describes a software extension to the Reactable entitled Gestroviser that was developed to explore musician machine collaboration at the control signal level. The system functions by sampling a performers input, processing or reshaping this sampled input, and then repeatedly replaying it. The degree to which the sampled control signal is processed during replay is adjustable in real-time by the manipulation of a continuous finger slider function. The reshaping algorithm uses stochastic methods commonly used for MIDI note generation from a provided dataset. The reshaped signal therefore varies in an unpredictable manner. In this way the Gestroviser is a device to capture, reshape and replay an instrumental gesture. We describe the result of initial user testing of the system and discuss possible further development.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{wmarley2015,
 abstract = {This paper describes a software extension to the Reactable entitled Gestroviser that was developed to explore musician machine collaboration at the control signal level. The system functions by sampling a performers input, processing or reshaping this sampled input, and then repeatedly replaying it. The degree to which the sampled control signal is processed during replay is adjustable in real-time by the manipulation of a continuous finger slider function. The reshaping algorithm uses stochastic methods commonly used for MIDI note generation from a provided dataset. The reshaped signal therefore varies in an unpredictable manner. In this way the Gestroviser is a device to capture, reshape and replay an instrumental gesture. We describe the result of initial user testing of the system and discuss possible further development.},
 address = {Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA},
 author = {William Marley and Nicholas Ward},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179124},
 editor = {Edgar Berdahl and Jesse Allison},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {May},
 pages = {140--143},
 publisher = {Louisiana State University},
 title = {Gestroviser: Toward Collaborative Agency in Digital Musical Instruments.},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/nime2015_287.pdf},
 urlsuppl1 = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/287/0287-file1.mp4},
 year = {2015}
}