THE PIPE: Explorations with Breath Control

Gary Scavone

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The Pipe is an experimental, general purpose music input device designed and built in the form of a compact MIDI wind controller. The development of this device was motivated in part by an interest in exploring breath pressure as a control input. The Pipe provides a variety of common sensor types, including force sensing resistors, momentary switches, accelerometers, potentiometers, and an air pressure transducer, which allow maximum flexibility in the design of a sensor mapping scheme. The Pipe uses a programmable BASIC Stamp 2sx microprocessor which outputs control messages via a standard MIDI jack.

Citation

Gary Scavone. 2003. THE PIPE: Explorations with Breath Control. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176557

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Scavone2003,
 abstract = {The Pipe is an experimental, general purpose music input device designed and built in the form of a compact MIDI wind controller. The development of this device was motivated in part by an interest in exploring breath pressure as a control input. The Pipe provides a variety of common sensor types, including force sensing resistors, momentary switches, accelerometers, potentiometers, and an air pressure transducer, which allow maximum flexibility in the design of a sensor mapping scheme. The Pipe uses a programmable BASIC Stamp 2sx microprocessor which outputs control messages via a standard MIDI jack.},
 address = {Montreal, Canada},
 author = {Scavone, Gary},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {22-24 May, 2003},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176557},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {MIDI Controller, Wind Controller, Breath Control, Human Computer Interaction. },
 pages = {15--18},
 title = {THE PIPE: Explorations with Breath Control},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2003/nime2003_015.pdf},
 year = {2003}
}