Pianists spend many years practicing on their instrument. As a result they develop alongside
their pianistic technique a set of gestural nuances that enable them to perform expressively …

The genre of contemporary classical music has seen significant innovation and research
related to new super, hyper, and hybrid instruments, which opens up a vast palette of …

In this thesis we propose a bottom-up approach for modelling instrumental gestures and
techniques, using piano pedalling as a case study. Pedalling gestures play a vital role in …

The continuous automatic calibration of musical robots is an important step toward enabling
them to create accurate, reliable, and expressive performances. Several attempts have been …

5 Design Case Study: Multimodal Visual Augmented Cello 55 5.1 Introduction..........................
.............. 55 5.1. 1 Background.................................... 55 5.2 Design Criteria …

This thesis explores the design and development of digitally extended, electro-acoustic (EA)
pitched percussion instruments, and their use in novel, multi-media performance contexts …

Eduardo Reck Miranda (see Figure 1) is a classically trained composer and artificial
intelligence (AI) scientist with an early involvement in electroacoustic and avant-garde pop …

This thesis examines my improvisatory practice on the viola da gamba and its augmentation
with mixed-music computer systems. It comprises creative work and an extended written …

A hybrid wind instrument generates self-sustained sounds via a real-time interaction
between a computed excitation model (such as the physical model of human lips interacting …

During the European Renaissance, instrumental music was a field enjoying a certain degree
of freedom and experimentation (especially when compared to the more rigorous sacred …