Letters
The hands: The making of a digital musical instrument
Michel Waisvisz's The Hands is one of the most famous and long-lasting research projects in the literature of digital music instruments. Consisting of a pair of data gloves and exhibited for the first time in 1984, The Hands is a pioneering work in ...
User-driven techniques for the design and evaluation of new musical interfaces
The merits of user-driven design have long been acknowledged in the field of human-computer interaction HCI: Closely involving target users throughout the lifecyle of a project can vastly improve their experiences with the final system. Thus, it comes ...
Interactive spatial sonification of multidimensional data for composition and auditory display
This article presents a new approach to interactive spatial sonification of multidimensional data as a tool for spatial sound synthesis, for composing temporal-spatial musical materials, and as an auditory display for scientists to analyze ...
Symbolic melodic similarity: State of the art and future challenges
Fostered by the introduction of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange MIREX competition, the number of systems that calculate symbolic melodic similarity has recently increased considerably. To understand the state of the art, we provide a ...