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Expanding and Embedding a High-Level Gesture Vocabulary for Digital and Augmented Musical Instruments

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Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information (HCII 2020)

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This paper reports ongoing initiatives to explore how digital and augmented musical instruments gestural vocabulary is developed over time, and how embedding the high-level gesture descriptors in those instruments can fomenting their use and contribute to their maturity toward established music instruments. The instruments included in this research are the T-Stick (Digital Musical Instrument), and the GuitarAMI (Augmented Music Instrument). Finally, we discuss present and future strategies for instrument longevity for the presented instruments.

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Notes

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    More information about the Workshop on the T-Stick can be found at https://www.cirmmt.org/activities/workshops/research/stick_workshop/workshop_tstick.

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    More information on Joseph Malloch can be found at https://josephmalloch.wordpress.com/.

  3. 3.

    More information on D. Andrew Stewart can be found at http://dandrewstewart.ca/.

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    https://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/cirmmt_composers_february.

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    https://www.cirmmt.org/activities/special/improv_feb2020_tstick.

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  1. Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL), Montreal, QC, H3A 1E3, Canada

    Eduardo A. L. Meneses & Marcelo M. Wanderley

  2. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT), Montreal, QC, H3A 1E3, Canada

    Eduardo A. L. Meneses, Takuto Fukuda & Marcelo M. Wanderley

  3. Digital Composition Studios (DCS), Montreal, QC, H3A 1E3, Canada

    Takuto Fukuda

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Meneses, E.A.L., Fukuda, T., Wanderley, M.M. (2020). Expanding and Embedding a High-Level Gesture Vocabulary for Digital and Augmented Musical Instruments. In: Yamamoto, S., Mori, H. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50017-7_27

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