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    Tabletop interfaces for composing and playing music
    (2012) Lynch, Sean George; Carpendale, Sheelagh
    Through the advent of multi-touch tabletops, there has been a plethora of interfaces that enable new possibilities for musical expression. These interfaces have focused primarily on tasks such as synthesising sounds, creating musical sequences, and using virtual in­struments. Within this space, I identified two significant deficiencies: the mapping of expressive, multi-touch gestures to physical models of instruments, and the composition and performance of music in a way that leverages some of the benefits of multi-touch tabletops. To address these deficiencies, I designed and implemented two interfaces: Sur­faceM usic and ToCoPlay. SurfaceMusic provides the ability to play virtual instruments using multi-touch gestures; ToCoPlay is a tabletop interface for collaborative composi­tion and real-time mixing and performing of music. These interfaces use state-of-the-art multi-touch interaction techniques, while creating a few new techniques as well. They provide new possibilities for what can be done within the space of collaborative tabletop music.