Building low-cost music controllers

Authors:
Alexander Refsum Jensenius;Rodolphe Koehly;Marcelo M. Wanderley
Affiliations:
Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway;Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
CMMR'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper presents our work on building low-cost music controllers intended for educational and creative use. The main idea was to build an electronic music controller, including sensors and a sensor interface, on a “10 euro” budget. We have experimented with turning commercially available USB game controllers into generic sensor interfaces, and making sensors from cheap conductive materials such as latex, ink, porous materials, and video tape. Our prototype controller, the CheapStick, is comparable to interfaces built with commercially available sensors and interfaces, but at a fraction of the price.