MTCF : A Framework for Designing and Coding Musical Tabletop Applications Directly in Pure Data

Carles F. Julià, Daniel Gallardo, and Sergi Jordà

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

In the past decade we have seen a growing presence of tabletop systems applied to music, lately with even some products becoming commercially available and being used byprofessional musicians in concerts. The development of thistype of applications requires several demanding technicalexpertises such as input processing, graphical design, realtime sound generation or interaction design, and because ofthis complexity they are usually developed by a multidisciplinary group.In this paper we present the Musical Tabletop CodingFramework (MTCF) a framework for designing and codingmusical tabletop applications by using the graphical programming language for digital sound processing Pure Data(Pd). With this framework we try to simplify the creationprocess of such type of interfaces, by removing the need ofany programming skills other than those of Pd.

Citation:

Carles F. Julià, Daniel Gallardo, and Sergi Jordà. 2011. MTCF : A Framework for Designing and Coding Musical Tabletop Applications Directly in Pure Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178057

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Julia2011,
 abstract = {In the past decade we have seen a growing presence of tabletop systems applied to music, lately with even some products becoming commercially available and being used byprofessional musicians in concerts. The development of thistype of applications requires several demanding technicalexpertises such as input processing, graphical design, realtime sound generation or interaction design, and because ofthis complexity they are usually developed by a multidisciplinary group.In this paper we present the Musical Tabletop CodingFramework (MTCF) a framework for designing and codingmusical tabletop applications by using the graphical programming language for digital sound processing Pure Data(Pd). With this framework we try to simplify the creationprocess of such type of interfaces, by removing the need ofany programming skills other than those of Pd.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Juli\`{a}, Carles F. and Gallardo, Daniel and Jord\`{a}, Sergi},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178057},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Pure Data, tabletop, tangible, framework },
 pages = {457--460},
 title = {MTCF : A Framework for Designing and Coding Musical Tabletop Applications Directly in Pure Data},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_457.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}