Tabletop interfaces for composing and playing music
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2012
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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.
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Bibliography: p. 90-98
A few pages are in colour.
A few pages are in colour.
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Lynch, S. G. (2012). Tabletop interfaces for composing and playing music (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/5030