AirSticks 2.0: Instrument Design for Expressive Gestural Interaction

Sam Trolland, Alon Ilsar, Ciaran Frame, Jon McCormack, and Elliott Wilson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

In this paper we present the development of a new gestural musical instrument, the AirSticks 2.0. The AirSticks 2.0 combines the latest advances in sensor fusion of Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and low latency wireless data transmission over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), to give an expressive wireless instrument capable of triggering and manipulating discrete and continuous sound events in real-time. We outline the design criteria for this new instrument that has evolved from previous prototypes, give a technical overview of the custom hardware and software developed, and present short videos of three distinct mappings that intuitively translate movement into musical sounds.

Citation:

Sam Trolland, Alon Ilsar, Ciaran Frame, Jon McCormack, and Elliott Wilson. 2022. AirSticks 2.0: Instrument Design for Expressive Gestural Interaction. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.c400bdc2

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME22_51,
 abstract = {In this paper we present the development of a new gestural musical instrument, the AirSticks 2.0. The AirSticks 2.0 combines the latest advances in sensor fusion of Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and low latency wireless data transmission over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), to give an expressive wireless instrument capable of triggering and manipulating discrete and continuous sound events in real-time. We outline the design criteria for this new instrument that has evolved from previous prototypes, give a technical overview of the custom hardware and software developed, and present short videos of three distinct mappings that intuitively translate movement into musical sounds.},
 address = {The University of Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {51},
 author = {Trolland, Sam and Ilsar, Alon and Frame, Ciaran and McCormack, Jon and Wilson, Elliott},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.c400bdc2},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 pdf = {77.pdf},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/TnEzwGshr48},
 title = {{AirSticks} 2.0: Instrument Design for Expressive Gestural Interaction},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428%2F92fbeb44.c400bdc2},
 year = {2022}
}