SoundGrasp : A Gestural Interface for the Performance of Live Music

Thomas Mitchell, and Imogen Heap

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper documents the first developmental phase of aninterface that enables the performance of live music usinggestures and body movements. The work included focuseson the first step of this project: the composition and performance of live music using hand gestures captured using asingle data glove. The paper provides a background to thefield, the aim of the project and a technical description ofthe work completed so far. This includes the developmentof a robust posture vocabulary, an artificial neural networkbased posture identification process and a state-based system to map identified postures onto a set of performanceprocesses. The paper is closed with qualitative usage observations and a projection of future plans.

Citation:

Thomas Mitchell, and Imogen Heap. 2011. SoundGrasp : A Gestural Interface for the Performance of Live Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178111

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Mitchell2011,
 abstract = {This paper documents the first developmental phase of aninterface that enables the performance of live music usinggestures and body movements. The work included focuseson the first step of this project: the composition and performance of live music using hand gestures captured using asingle data glove. The paper provides a background to thefield, the aim of the project and a technical description ofthe work completed so far. This includes the developmentof a robust posture vocabulary, an artificial neural networkbased posture identification process and a state-based system to map identified postures onto a set of performanceprocesses. The paper is closed with qualitative usage observations and a projection of future plans.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Mitchell, Thomas and Heap, Imogen},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178111},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Music Controller, Gestural Music, Data Glove, Neural Network, Live Music Composition, Looping, Imogen Heap },
 pages = {465--468},
 title = {SoundGrasp : A Gestural Interface for the Performance of Live Music},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_465.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}