The T-Stick : From Musical Interface to Musical Instrument

Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper describes the T-Stick, a new family of digitalmusical instruments. It presents the motivation behind theproject, hardware and software design, and presents insightsgained through collaboration with performers who have collectively practised and performed with the T-Stick for hundreds of hours, and with composers who have written piecesfor the instrument in the context of McGill University's Digital Orchestra project. Each of the T-Sticks is based on thesame general structure and sensing platform, but each alsodiffers from its siblings in size, weight, timbre and range.

Citation:

Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. 2007. The T-Stick : From Musical Interface to Musical Instrument. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177175

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Malloch2007,
 abstract = {This paper describes the T-Stick, a new family of digitalmusical instruments. It presents the motivation behind theproject, hardware and software design, and presents insightsgained through collaboration with performers who have collectively practised and performed with the T-Stick for hundreds of hours, and with composers who have written piecesfor the instrument in the context of McGill University's Digital Orchestra project. Each of the T-Sticks is based on thesame general structure and sensing platform, but each alsodiffers from its siblings in size, weight, timbre and range.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Malloch, Joseph and Wanderley, Marcelo M.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177175},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {gestural controller, digital musical instrument, families of instruments },
 pages = {66--69},
 title = {The T-Stick : From Musical Interface to Musical Instrument},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_066.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}