Ex)Situ recently released four short videos presenting projects related to gesture based interaction on mobile phones. Two of the videos—Fieldward and Expressive Keyboard—are related to research I pursued while working there as a postdoc:
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Concerto for T-Stick and Two Laptop Orchestras
Here’s a video from way back in 2011 that I only recently noticed on YouTube. It features D. Andrew Stewart playing the T-Stick as instrumental soloist with laptop orchestras from Concordia and McMaster Universities.
The piece was co-composed by Eldad Tsabary (director of the Concordia Laptop Orchestra, CLOrk), D. Andrew Stewart (T-Stick) and David Ogborn (founder of McMaster University’s Cybernetic Orchestra).
Interestingly, there are also a couple of videos online in which composer Kevin Austin presents the video and discusses the piece.
fMRI-compatible musical instruments
My good friend and colleague Avrum Hollinger created some amazing fMRI-compatible musical instruments while working in the Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab at McGill University. They recently released a video explaining parts of the project and featuring a few of his creations:
New T-Stick videos
D. Andrew Stewart has posted new videos of his recent performances on the T-Stick digital musical instrument:
Documentary preview: Instrumented Bodies
We recently posted a teaser video for our project “Instrumented Bodies: Digital Prostheses for Music and Dance Performance” — enjoy!
