The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)

Garth Paine, Ian Stevenson, and Angela Pearce

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents the Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP), an industry partnership project between ThumMotion P/L and The University of Western Sydney (UWS). ThuMP sought to developing mapping strategies for new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), specifically the ThummerTM, which provides thirteen simultaneous degrees of freedom. This research presents a new approach to the mapping problem resulting from a primary design research phase and a prototype testing and evaluation phase. In order to establish an underlying design approach for the ThummerTM mapping strategies, a number of interviews were carried out with high-level acoustic instrumental performers, the majority of whom play with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney, Australia. Mapping strategies were developed from analysis of these interviews and then evaluated in trial usability testing.

Citation:

Garth Paine, Ian Stevenson, and Angela Pearce. 2007. The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP). Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177217

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Paine2007,
 abstract = {This paper presents the Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP), an industry partnership project between ThumMotion P/L and The University of Western Sydney (UWS). ThuMP sought to developing mapping strategies for new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), specifically the ThummerTM, which provides thirteen simultaneous degrees of freedom. This research presents a new approach to the mapping problem resulting from a primary design research phase and a prototype testing and evaluation phase. In order to establish an underlying design approach for the ThummerTM mapping strategies, a number of interviews were carried out with high-level acoustic instrumental performers, the majority of whom play with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney, Australia. Mapping strategies were developed from analysis of these interviews and then evaluated in trial usability testing.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Paine, Garth and Stevenson, Ian and Pearce, Angela},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177217},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Musical Instrument Design, Mapping, Musicianship, evaluation, testing. },
 pages = {70--77},
 title = {The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_070.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}