Dynamic Patches for Live Musical Performance

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger, and Sergi Jordà

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This article reflects the current state of the reacTable* project,an electronic music instrument with a tangible table-basedinterface, which is currently under development at theAudiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In thispaper we are focussing on the issue of Dynamic Patching,which is a particular and unique aspect of the sound synthesisand control paradigms of the reacTable*. Unlike commonvisual programming languages for sound synthesis, whichconceptually separate the patch building process from theactual musical performance, the reacTable* combines theconstruction and playing of the instrument in a unique way.The tangible interface allows direct manipulation control overany of the used building blocks, which physically representthe whole synthesizer function.

Citation:

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger, and Sergi Jordà. 2004. Dynamic Patches for Live Musical Performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176621

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Kaltenbrunner2004,
 abstract = {This article reflects the current state of the reacTable* project,an electronic music instrument with a tangible table-basedinterface, which is currently under development at theAudiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In thispaper we are focussing on the issue of Dynamic Patching,which is a particular and unique aspect of the sound synthesisand control paradigms of the reacTable*. Unlike commonvisual programming languages for sound synthesis, whichconceptually separate the patch building process from theactual musical performance, the reacTable* combines theconstruction and playing of the instrument in a unique way.The tangible interface allows direct manipulation control overany of the used building blocks, which physically representthe whole synthesizer function.},
 address = {Hamamatsu, Japan},
 author = {Kaltenbrunner, Martin and Geiger, G\''{u}nter and Jord\`{a}, Sergi},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176621},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {dynamic patching,musical instrument,sound synthesis,tangible interfaces,visual programming},
 pages = {19--22},
 title = {Dynamic Patches for Live Musical Performance},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2004/nime2004_019.pdf},
 year = {2004}
}