On the Use of Flute Air Jet as A Musical Control Variable

Andrey R. Silva, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Gary Scavone

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper aims to present some perspectives on mappingembouchure gestures of flute players and their use as controlvariables. For this purpose, we have analyzed several typesof sensors, in terms of sensitivity, dimension, accuracy andprice, which can be used to implement a system capable ofmapping embouchure parameters such as air jet velocity andair jet direction. Finally, we describe the implementationof a sensor system used to map embouchure gestures of aclassical Boehm flute.

Citation

Andrey R. Silva, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Gary Scavone. 2005. On the Use of Flute Air Jet as A Musical Control Variable. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176814

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Silva2005,
 abstract = {This paper aims to present some perspectives on mappingembouchure gestures of flute players and their use as controlvariables. For this purpose, we have analyzed several typesof sensors, in terms of sensitivity, dimension, accuracy andprice, which can be used to implement a system capable ofmapping embouchure parameters such as air jet velocity andair jet direction. Finally, we describe the implementationof a sensor system used to map embouchure gestures of aclassical Boehm flute.},
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Silva, Andrey R. and Wanderley, Marcelo M. and Scavone, Gary},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176814},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Embouchure, air pressure sensors, hot wires, mapping, augmented flute. },
 pages = {105--108},
 title = {On the Use of Flute Air Jet as A Musical Control Variable},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_105.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}