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}
}