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Interface Design: Internet Directory
Here's the first version of the set of links to interface design. It includes general reference links to papers, web pages, etc., a detailed set of analog-to-MIDI interfaces, a preliminary list of gestural controllers and few links to companies, institutes, etc.
General Information
- The NIME Workshop - The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Past NIME Conferences:
- Electronic Music Interfaces - by Joe Paradiso - Try this an introduction!
- A list of electronic Musical Instruments from J. Piringer's Master's Thesis. A very complete list (34 pages)!
- Axel's list of webpages - Axel Mulder
- Cube Culture - General Information on projects using the i-Cube
- Gesture Research in Music - Marcelo Wanderley and Joseph Butch Rovan
- Hardware Sensors & Interactive Music - Neal Farwell
- Input/Data Acquisition System Design for Human Computer Interfacing - W. Putnam & R. B. Knapp
- Michel Waisvisz - Text and Image Archive
- Physical Interfaces in the Electronic Arts Interaction Theory and Interfacing Techniques for Real-time Performance, in Trends in Gestural Control of Music. Bert Bongers
- REV (Real, Electronic, and Virtual) - post graduate program and festival at QUT, Australia.
Analog to MIDI Interfaces
- CTM64 Contact To MIDI - Universal MIDI Out kit - Doepfer Musikelektronik
- ADB I/O - Bee Hive
- AtoMIC Pro - Sensor to MIDI interface - Ircam - Centre Pompidou
- CVM - DIEM
- DIY MIDI Controllers - Audiomulch
- ICube System - Infusion Systems
- MANMIDI, by Dylan Menzies
- MIDIbox - MIDI Converter - NOTAM
- Sami - B.Donzel-Gargand & Adrien Lefevre
- Sensorlab - STEIM
- Wireless Sensor-to-MIDI - DIST - Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale
Controllers
- 4 Hands / 3DGC videocamera based hand motion capture system, multimedia performance by Jean-Marc Duchenne and Bertrand Merlier
- The Accordiatron designed by Stephan von Muehlen & Michael Gurevich - CCRMA
- ACROE - TGR - Transducteur Gestuel Rétroactif (Force Feedback Keyboard)
- Biofeedback Instrument Corporation Waverider - Brainwave controller
- Biomuse by BioControl Systems Inc.
- BodySynth (Chris Van Raalte and Ed Severinghaus)
- Buchla Lightning II by D. Buchla. Other controllers at the same address!
- CNMAT - David Wessel's expressive controllers, environments for performance design and control, guitar innovations group and much more at CNMAT Research Page.
- Continuum Fingerboard from the CERL sound group.
- Cyberwhistle, by Dylan Menzies.
- The Digital Baton and the Conductor's Jacket from Teresa Marrin Nakra at the Media Lab, MIT - USA.
- Digital Dance: A dance/music interface from DIEM - The Danish Institute of Electroacustic Music.
- Einar Dreaming Heads, and various other instruments
- System, developed by Frieder Weiss from Palindrome Inter-Media-Performance-Group, a flexible videocamera based system to control Midi and other media under Windows.
- The funny-fiddle project - By Neal Farwell
- Haptic Technologies PenCat, PenMouse
- HARP/V-Scope,HARP/DanceWeb, EyesWeb and more from A. Camurri's group at DIST, University of Genova - Italy.
- The Holey Controller, by Gary P. Scavone.
- Hyperinstruments, developed by Tod Machover's group at Media Lab, MIT.
- Interactive Light's Dimension Beam - Infrared Controller (discontinued)
- IRISIS - Collectif & Cie
- Kenton Electronics Control Freak
- Les couleurs du vent data glove designed and performed by Bertrand Merlier
- Litefoot Project Sensitive floor
- Logicad Cyberpuck, Space Mouse
- MATRIX by Dan Overholt, Media Lab
- Media Lab- Joe Paradiso's various interfaces
- The Meta-Instruments from Serge de Laubier at Espace Musical.
- Metasaxophone, by Matthew Burtner.
- PAiA - PAiA's Theremax
- Pedalophone, by A. Michalic, an 8-pedal controller.
- NoTAM Control Suit
- The Radio Drum home-page, by Sabrina Kikkert and Loren Powers
- Sensable Technologies PHANTOM Interface Hardware
- SensOrg: An interesting project from Tamas Ungvary and M. Kieslinger at the Royal Institut of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Soundbeam - EMS - Electronic Music Studios
- STARR LABS Y10 Standalone MIDI controller
- Stratifier, a multidemensional controller for the performance of live electro-acoustic music, developed by Arie van Schutterhoef, from the Schreck Ensemble, NL.
- Tactex Controls inc. Multi-touch, pressure sensitive input devices
- Tech 21 MIDI Mouse
- TwinTowers, PAGe System, etc. by Leonello Tarabella's group in Pisa, Italy and the design of alternate gestural controllers.
- The vBow, by Charles Nichols at CCRMA
- Yamaha Miburi
- Wave Idea Bitstream Pro : Universal MIDI controller
Institutes - Labs - Companies
- Benoît Maubrey / DIE AUDIO GRUPPE - Artwork: Performances with electro-acoustic clothes
- Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman's Interface
- New controllers, software, concerts, etc. at STEIM in Amsterdam, the Netherlands