Electronic music: new ways to play
IEEE Spectrum
Principles for designing computer music controllers
NIME '01 Proceedings of the 2001 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Input devices for musical expression: borrowing tools from HCI
NIME '01 Proceedings of the 2001 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Composing for the (dis)Embodied ensemble: notational systems in (dis)Appearances
NIME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Real-time adaptive control of modal synthesis
NIME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
ThumbTec: a new handheld input device
NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Not hyper, not meta, not cyber but infra-instruments
NIME '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
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Noisegate 67 was the first fully interactive composition written for the Computer Metasaxophone, a new computer controller interface for electroacoustic music. The Metasaxophone is an acoustic tenor saxophone retrofitted with an onboard computer microprocessor and an array of sensors that convert performance data into MIDI control messages. While maintaining full acoustic functionality the Metasaxophone is a versatile MIDI controller. This paper discusses the compositionally driven technical and aesthetic concerns that went into building the Metasaxophone, and the resulting aesthetic implementations in Noisegate 67. By juxtaposing the compositional approach to the saxophone before and after the electronic enhancements an attempt is made to expose working paradigms of composition for metainstruments.