A Structured Instrument Design Approach: The Video-Organ

Bert Bongers, and Yolande Harris

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The Video-Organ is an instrument for the live performance of audio-visual material. To design an interface we apply a modular approach, in an attempt to split up the complex task of finding physical interfaces and mappings to control sound and video as generated by the computer. Generally, most modules, or instrumentlets as they are called, consist of a human interface element mapped to a certain effect. To describe the instrumentlets a design space is used consisting of the parameters degrees of freedom, range and precision. This paper is addressing the notion that traditional approaches to composition are challenged and changed in this situation, where the material is both audio and visual, and where the design and development of an instrument becomes involved in the process of performing and composing.

Citation:

Bert Bongers, and Yolande Harris. 2002. A Structured Instrument Design Approach: The Video-Organ. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176396

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Bongers2002,
 abstract = {The Video-Organ is an instrument for the live performance of audio-visual material. To design an interface we apply a modular approach, in an attempt to split up the complex task of finding physical interfaces and mappings to control sound and video as generated by the computer. Generally, most modules, or instrumentlets as they are called, consist of a human interface element mapped to a certain effect. To describe the instrumentlets a design space is used consisting of the parameters degrees of freedom, range and precision. This paper is addressing the notion that traditional approaches to composition are challenged and changed in this situation, where the material is both audio and visual, and where the design and development of an instrument becomes involved in the process of performing and composing.},
 address = {Dublin, Ireland},
 author = {Bongers, Bert and Harris, Yolande},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {24-26 May, 2002},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176396},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {18--23},
 title = {A Structured Instrument Design Approach: The Video-Organ},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2002/nime2002_018.pdf},
 year = {2002}
}