Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for Trumpet

Sarah Reid, Ryan Gaston, Colin Honigman, and Ajay Kapur

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper describes the design of a Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for trumpet. The interface attaches effortlessly to any B-flat or C trumpet and requires no permanent modifications to the host-instrument. It was designed first and foremost with accessibility in mind an approach that is uncommon in augmented instrument design and seeks to strike a balance between minimal design and robust control. MIGSI uses sensor technology to capture gestural data such as valve displacement, hand tension, and instrument position, to offer extended control and expressivity to trumpet players. Several streams of continuous data are transmitted wirelessly from MIGSI to the receiving computer, where MIGSI Mapping application (a simple graphical user interface) parses the incoming data into individually accessible variables. It is our hope that MIGSI will be adopted by trumpet players and composers, and that over time a new body of repertoire for the augmented trumpet will emerge.

Citation:

Sarah Reid, Ryan Gaston, Colin Honigman, and Ajay Kapur. 2016. Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for Trumpet. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176106

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Reid2016,
 abstract = {This paper describes the design of a Minimally Invasive Gesture
Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for trumpet. The interface attaches effortlessly to any
B-flat or C trumpet and requires no permanent modifications to the
host-instrument. It was designed first and foremost with accessibility in
mind an approach that is uncommon in augmented instrument design and
seeks to strike a balance between minimal design and robust control. MIGSI uses
sensor technology to capture gestural data such as valve displacement, hand
tension, and instrument position, to offer extended control and expressivity to
trumpet players. Several streams of continuous data are transmitted wirelessly
from MIGSI to the receiving computer, where MIGSI Mapping application (a simple
graphical user interface) parses the incoming data into individually accessible
variables. It is our hope that MIGSI will be adopted by trumpet players and
composers, and that over time a new body of repertoire for the augmented trumpet
will emerge.},
 address = {Brisbane, Australia},
 author = {Sarah Reid and Ryan Gaston and Colin Honigman and Ajay Kapur},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176106},
 isbn = {978-1-925455-13-7},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {419--424},
 publisher = {Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University},
 title = {Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for Trumpet},
 track = {Papers},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2016/nime2016_paper0082.pdf},
 year = {2016}
}