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}
}