A Low-level Embedded Service Architecture for Rapid DIY Design of Real-time Musical Instruments

Andrew Schmeder, and Adrian Freed

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

  • Year: 2009
  • Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  • Pages: 121–124
  • Keywords: real-time musical interface, DIY design, em- bedded web services, rapid prototyping, reconfigurable firmware
  • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177673 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

An on-the-fly reconfigurable low-level embedded servicearchitecture is presented as a means to improve scalability, improve conceptual comprehensibility, reduce humanerror and reduce development time when designing newsensor-based electronic musical instruments with real-timeresponsiveness. The implementation of the concept ina project called micro-OSC is described. Other sensorinterfacing products are evaluated in the context of DIYprototyping of musical instruments. The capabilities ofthe micro-OSC platform are demonstrated through a set ofexamples including resistive sensing, mixed digital-analogsystems, many-channel sensor interfaces and time-basedmeasurement methods.

Citation:

Andrew Schmeder, and Adrian Freed. 2009. A Low-level Embedded Service Architecture for Rapid DIY Design of Real-time Musical Instruments. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177673

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Schmeder2009,
 abstract = {An on-the-fly reconfigurable low-level embedded servicearchitecture is presented as a means to improve scalability, improve conceptual comprehensibility, reduce humanerror and reduce development time when designing newsensor-based electronic musical instruments with real-timeresponsiveness. The implementation of the concept ina project called micro-OSC is described. Other sensorinterfacing products are evaluated in the context of DIYprototyping of musical instruments. The capabilities ofthe micro-OSC platform are demonstrated through a set ofexamples including resistive sensing, mixed digital-analogsystems, many-channel sensor interfaces and time-basedmeasurement methods.},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {Schmeder, Andrew and Freed, Adrian},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177673},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {real-time musical interface, DIY design, em- bedded web services, rapid prototyping, reconfigurable firmware },
 pages = {121--124},
 title = {A Low-level Embedded Service Architecture for Rapid DIY Design of Real-time Musical Instruments},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_121.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}