Mapping Strategies, Gesture Research in Music - IRCAM - General discussion on Mapping and the use of Gestures in music

Virtual Musical Instruments: Accessing the Sound Synthesis Universe as a Performer. - Paper by Axel Mulder discussing Electronic Musical Instruments and their control

"There's more to interaction than meets the eye" - Bill Buxton's plea to computer designers in general to be inspired by musical instrument control.

Two-Handed / Bimanual Input to Computer Systems - A useful list of papers on Bill Buxton's website

Directory of sources for input devices. - also from Bill Buxton

Electronic Music Interfaces - Joe Paradiso's review of instrument design with electronics and computer technology

Towards a Model for Instrumental Mapping in Expert Musical Interaction. - Hunt, Wanderley & Kirk's overview of mapping strategies.

Escher: Modeling and Performing Composed Instruments in Real-time - Wanderley, Schnell & Rovan's prototyping system in jMax for experimentations with different mapping strategies.

Instrumental Gestural Mapping Strategies as Expressivity Determinants in Computer Music Performance - Rovan, Wanderley et al's description of mapping experiments for musical performance.

Performance Factors in Control of High-Dimensional Spaces - Guy Garnett & Camille Goudeseune - A discussion on performance including examples of mappings.

See the "Mapping Tools" section of the Software Tools Internet Directory page.