Entangling Entanglement: A Diffractive Dialogue on HCI and Musical Interactions

L Morrison, A McPherson - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
If, as several recent papers claim, we have entered a new wave of “Entanglement HCI,” then
we are still at a liminal stage prior to consensus around which sources underpin this …

Buttons, handles, and keys: Advances in continuous-control keyboard instruments

A McPherson - Computer Music Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The keyboard is one of the most popular and enduring musical interfaces ever created.
Today, the keyboard is most closely associated with the acoustic piano and the electronic …

Separating sound from source: sonic transformation of the violin through electrodynamic pickups and acoustic actuation

LS Pardue, K Buys, M Edinger, D Overholt… - NIME 2019 New …, 2019 - vbn.aau.dk
When designing an augmented acoustic instrument, it is often of interest to retain an
instrument's sound quality and nuanced response while leveraging the richness of digital …

Multidimensional gesture sensing at the piano keyboard

AP McPherson, YE Kim - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we present a new keyboard interface for computer music applications. Where
traditional keyboard controllers report the velocity of each key-press, our interface senses up …

[PDF][PDF] The o in nime: Reflecting on the importance of reusing and repurposing old musical instruments

R Masu, F Morreale, AR Jensenius - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - researchgate.net
In this paper, we reflect on the focus of “newness” in NIME research and practice and argue
that there is a missing O (for “Old”) in framing our academic discourse. A systematic review …

The Show Must Go Wrong: Towards an understanding of audience perception of error in digital musical instrument performance

SMA Bin - 2018 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
This thesis is about DMI (digital musical instrument) performance, its audiences, and their
perception of error. The goal of this research is to improve current understanding of how …

Performer experience on a continuous keyboard instrument

G Moro, AP McPherson - Computer Music Journal, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
On several keyboard instruments the produced sound is not always dependent exclusively
on a discrete key-velocity parameter, and minute gestural details can affect the final sonic …

Composing with biomemristors: is biocomputing the new technology of computer music?

ER Miranda, E Braund, S Venkatesh - Computer Music Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our research concerns the development of biocomputers using electronic components
grown out of biological material. This article reports the development of a novel biological …

On building practical biocomputers for real-world applications: Receptacles for culturing slime mould memristors and component standardisation

E Braund, ER Miranda - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Our application of bionic engineering is novel: we are interested in developing hybrid
hardware-wetware systems for music. This paper introduces receptacles for culturing …

[PDF][PDF] The EMvibe: An Electromagnetically Actuated Vibraphone.

NC Britt, J Snyder, AP McPherson - NIME, 2012 - researchgate.net
The EMvibe is an augmented vibraphone that allows for continuous control over the
amplitude and spectrum of individual notes. The system uses electromagnetic actuators to …