The Airstick: A Free-Gesture Controller Using Infrared Sensing

Ivan Franco

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the development of AirStick, an interface for musical expression. AirStick is played in the air, in a Theremin style. It is composed of an array of infrared proximity sensors, which allow the mapping of the position of any interfering obstacle inside a bi-dimensional zone. This controller sends both x and y control data to various real-time synthesis algorithms.

Citation

Ivan Franco. 2005. The Airstick: A Free-Gesture Controller Using Infrared Sensing. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176747

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Franco2005,
 abstract = {This paper describes the development of AirStick, an interface for musical expression. AirStick is played {in the air}, in a Theremin style. It is composed of an array of infrared proximity sensors, which allow the mapping of the position of any interfering obstacle inside a bi-dimensional zone. This controller sends both x and y control data to various real-time synthesis algorithms. },
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Franco, Ivan},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176747},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Music Controller, Infrared Sensing, Computer Music. },
 pages = {248--249},
 title = {The Airstick: A Free-Gesture Controller Using Infrared Sensing},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_248.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}