EpipE: Exploration of the Uilleann Pipes as a Potential Controller for Computer-based Music

Cormac Cannon, Stephen Hughes, and Sile O'Modhrain

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2003
• Location: Montreal, Canada
• Pages: 3–8
• Keywords: Controllers, continuous woodwind tonehole sensor, uilleann pipes, Irish bagpipe, physical modelling, double reed, conical bore, tonehole.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176497 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

In this paper we present a design for the EpipE, a newexpressive electronic music controller based on the IrishUilleann Pipes, a 7-note polyphonic reeded woodwind. Thecore of this proposed controller design is a continuouselectronic tonehole-sensing arrangement, equally applicableto other woodwind interfaces like those of the flute, recorder orJapanese shakuhachi. The controller will initially be used todrive a physically-based synthesis model, with the eventualgoal being the development of a mapping layer allowing theEpipE interface to operate as a MIDI-like controller of arbitrarysynthesis models.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Cannon2003,
 abstract = {In this paper we present a design for the EpipE, a newexpressive electronic music controller based on the IrishUilleann Pipes, a 7-note polyphonic reeded woodwind. Thecore of this proposed controller design is a continuouselectronic tonehole-sensing arrangement, equally applicableto other woodwind interfaces like those of the flute, recorder orJapanese shakuhachi. The controller will initially be used todrive a physically-based synthesis model, with the eventualgoal being the development of a mapping layer allowing theEpipE interface to operate as a MIDI-like controller of arbitrarysynthesis models.},
 address = {Montreal, Canada},
 author = {Cannon, Cormac and Hughes, Stephen and O'Modhrain, Sile},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {22-24 May, 2003},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176497},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Controllers, continuous woodwind tonehole sensor, uilleann pipes, Irish bagpipe, physical modelling, double reed, conical bore, tonehole. },
 pages = {3--8},
 title = {EpipE: Exploration of the Uilleann Pipes as a Potential Controller for Computer-based Music},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2003/nime2003_003.pdf},
 year = {2003}
}