The AirStick: a free-gesture controller using infrared sensing

Authors:
Ivan Franco
Affiliations:
YDreams, Madan Parque, Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal
Venue:
NIME '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper describes the development of AirStick, an interface for musical expression. AirStick is played "in the air", in a Theremin style. It is composed of an array of infrared proximity sensors, which allow the mapping of the position of any interfering obstacle inside a bi-dimensional zone. This controller sends both x and y control data to various real-time synthesis algorithms.