Keynote 3: Marcelo M. Wanderley
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
Thursday, October 17th - 09:00
Video recorded and edited by Olivier Derrien.
Marcelo Mortensen Wanderley holds a Ph.D. degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, on acoustics,
signal processing, and computer science applied to music. His main research interests include gestural control of sound synthesis,
input device design and evaluation, motion capture, and the use of sensors and actuators in digital musical instruments.
He is the co-editor of the electronic publication "Trends in Gestural Control of Music" (2000).
Dr. Wanderley has chaired 2003 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression and co-authored the textbook
“New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard”, A-R Editions, 2006. He is currently William Dawson
Scholar and Associate Professor in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, where he directs the
Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT).
Movement, Mapping and Digital Musical Instruments
In this talk I will discuss several works on the study of performer movements and the design of digital musical instruments (DMIs). Using several motion capture techniques, the detailed study of how performers play their instruments is essential to understand how skilled musicians perform music, but can also shed light onto new strategies for designing DMIs, for instance, by sensing performers' ancillary movements. The design of DMIs can itself be approached by several angles, for instance, input device design or choice of mapping strategies. The recent availability of inexpensive sensor and microcontroller platforms has given rise to a dramatic increase in the number of devices available, although most all of them have remained as laboratory prototypes with almost no performance practice. The step from prototype to a fully-fledged instrument is actually not an obvious one, demanding effort and dedication of engineers to produce stable versions of their designs and of performers to create their own performance technique. Similarly, choosing a given mapping over another is still an open question. Although tools to help with experimentations with mappings have become more popular in the last 10 years such as libmapper, there is still a need to study why certain mapping choices may be more or less applicable in a given context. I will provide examples of movement analysis and DMI design created at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL), at McGill University, illustrating the above issues and try to highlight directions for future research in this field, for instance, the development of prosthetic instruments.Webpages
http://www.idmil.org/people/marcelo_m._wanderleyhttp://www.cirmmt.mcgill.ca/
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