The Development Of Physical Spatial Controllers

Bridget Johnson, Michael Norris, and Ajay Kapur

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper introduces recent developments in the Chronus series, a family of custom controllers that afford a performer gestural interaction with surround sound systems that can be easily integrated into their personal performance systems. The controllers are built with the goal of encouraging more electronic musicians to include the creation of dynamic pantophonic fields in performance. The paper focuses on technical advances of the Chronus 2.0 prototype that extend the interface to control both radial and angular positional data, and the controllers' ease of integration into electronic performance configurations, both for diffusion and for performance from the wider electronic music community.

Citation:

Bridget Johnson, Michael Norris, and Ajay Kapur. 2014. The Development Of Physical Spatial Controllers. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178820

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{bjohnson2014,
 abstract = {This paper introduces recent developments in the Chronus series, a family of custom controllers that afford a performer gestural interaction with surround sound systems that can be easily integrated into their personal performance systems. The controllers are built with the goal of encouraging more electronic musicians to include the creation of dynamic pantophonic fields in performance. The paper focuses on technical advances of the Chronus 2.0 prototype that extend the interface to control both radial and angular positional data, and the controllers' ease of integration into electronic performance configurations, both for diffusion and for performance from the wider electronic music community.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Bridget Johnson and Michael Norris and Ajay Kapur},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178820},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {335--338},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {The Development Of Physical Spatial Controllers},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_349.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}