Bimanuality in alternate musical instruments

  • Authors:
  • Loïc Kessous;Daniel Arfib

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS-LMA, Marseille;CNRS-LMA, Marseille

  • Venue:
  • NIME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents a study of bimanual control applied to sound synthesis. This study deals with coordination, cooperation, and abilities of our hands in musical context. We describe examples of instruments made using subtractive synthesis, scanned synthesis in Max/MSP and commercial stand-alone software synthesizers via MIDI communication protocol. These instruments have been designed according to a multi-layer-mapping model, which provides modular design. They have been used in concerts and performance considerations are discussed too.