Designing Mobile Musical Instruments and Environments with urMus

Georg Essl, and Alexander Müller

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

We discuss how the environment urMus was designed to allow creation of mobile musical instruments on multi-touch smartphones. The design of a mobile musical instrument consists of connecting sensory capabilities to output modalities through various means of processing. We describe how the default mapping interface was designed which allows to set up such a pipeline and how visual and interactive multi-touch UIs for musical instruments can be designed within the system.

Citation:

Georg Essl, and Alexander Müller. 2010. Designing Mobile Musical Instruments and Environments with urMus. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177759

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Essl2010,
 abstract = {We discuss how the environment urMus was designed to allow creation of mobile musical instruments on multi-touch smartphones. The design of a mobile musical instrument consists of connecting sensory capabilities to output modalities through various means of processing. We describe how the default mapping interface was designed which allows to set up such a pipeline and how visual and interactive multi-touch UIs for musical instruments can be designed within the system. },
 address = {Sydney, Australia},
 author = {Essl, Georg and M\''{u}ller, Alexander},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177759},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Mobile music making, meta-environment, design, mapping, user interface},
 pages = {76--81},
 title = {Designing Mobile Musical Instruments and Environments with urMus},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2010/nime2010_076.pdf},
 year = {2010}
}