2 performances in the 21st century virtual color organ
C&C '02 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Creativity & cognition
Experiments with virtual reality instruments
NIME '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
NIME '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
NIME '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Xenakis: combining tangible interaction with probability-based musical composition
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
An Immersive Musical Instrument Prototype
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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In this paper we describe a system for creating live musical expressions in a virtual studio environment. The underlying concept of this work is to provide casual and semi-professional users with a user experience that allow to easily create musical expressions without touch and visible feedback similar to the Theremin approach invented in in the early 20th century by Lev Theremin [26]. One or more performers stand in front of a studio camera inside a blue box and interact with an infrared-laser-based multi-touch device. The final TV image shows the performers interacting with a virtual screen, which is augmented in front of them, and background scenery that dynamically reacts to the music being produced. To overcome the problem of the performers not seeing this virtual screen in reality and yet being able to play melodic sequences, we use a special hexagonal pitch grid to facilitate the performer's awareness of this novel thereminlike virtual musical instrument.