Textural Crossfader
Matthew Blessing, and Edgar Berdahl
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Year: 2015
- Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- Pages: 180–181
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179032 (Link to paper)
- PDF link
- Supplementary File 1: 0337-file1.mp4
- Supplementary File 2: 0337-file2.mov
Abstract
A LapBox derivative, the Textural Crossfader is a keyboard-based embedded acoustic instrument, which sits comfortably across the performer's lap and radiates sound out of integrated stereo speakers. The performer controls the sound by manipulating the keys on a pair of mini-keyboard interfaces. A unique one-to-one mapping enables the performer to precisely crossfade among a set of looped audio wave files, creating a conveniently portable system for navigating through a complex timbre space. The axes of the timbre space can be reconfigured by replacing the wave files stored in the flash memory.
Citation
Matthew Blessing, and Edgar Berdahl. 2015. Textural Crossfader. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179032
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{mblessing2015, abstract = {A LapBox derivative, the Textural Crossfader is a keyboard-based embedded acoustic instrument, which sits comfortably across the performer's lap and radiates sound out of integrated stereo speakers. The performer controls the sound by manipulating the keys on a pair of mini-keyboard interfaces. A unique one-to-one mapping enables the performer to precisely crossfade among a set of looped audio wave files, creating a conveniently portable system for navigating through a complex timbre space. The axes of the timbre space can be reconfigured by replacing the wave files stored in the flash memory.}, address = {Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA}, author = {Matthew Blessing and Edgar Berdahl}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179032}, editor = {Edgar Berdahl and Jesse Allison}, issn = {2220-4806}, month = {May}, pages = {180--181}, publisher = {Louisiana State University}, title = {Textural Crossfader}, url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/nime2015_337.pdf}, urlsuppl1 = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/337/0337-file1.mp4}, urlsuppl2 = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/337/0337-file2.mov}, year = {2015} }