Theses
Books
Book Chapters
Journal Papers
Revised Proceedings
Conference Papers (since 2004)
Conference Abstracts

Theses

Forthcoming

Mark T. Marshall. “Physical Interface Design for Digital Musical Instruments”, Ph.D. thesis, McGill University. Forthcoming, October 2008.

Doug Van Nort. “Modular and Adaptive Control of Sonic Processes”, Ph.D. thesis, McGill University. Forthcoming, 2008.

Completed

Alexandre Savard. “When Gestures are Perceived through Sounds: A Framework for Sonification of Musicians’ Ancillary Gestures”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2008.

Avrum Hollinger ”Design of fMRI-compatible electronic musical interfaces”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. July 2008.

Carmine Casciato. “On the Choice of Gestural Controllers for Musical Applications: An evaluation of the Buchla Lightning II and the RadioDrum”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007. PDF document (5 MBytes).

Philippe Zaborowski. “A Novel Input Device For Thumb Control”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007. PDF document (1.1 MBytes).

Joseph Malloch. “A Consort of Gestural Musical Controllers: Design, Construction, and Performance”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007. PDF document (1.6 Mbytes)

David Birnbaum. “Musical Vibrotactile Feedback”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007. PDF document (1.9 MBytes)

Stephen Sinclair. “Force-Feedback Hand Controllers for Musical Interaction”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007. PDF document (3.1 MBytes)

Anne-Marie Burns. “Computer Vision Methods for Guitarist Left-Hand Fingering Recognition”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2006. PDF document (6.2 MBytes)

Elliot Sinyor. “Digital Musical Instruments: A Design Approach Based on Moving Mechanical Systems”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2006. PDF document (3.3 MBytes)

Paul Kolesnik. “Conducting Gesture Recognition, Analysis and Performance System”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. June 2004. PDF document (6.1 Mbytes)

Books

Eduardo R. Miranda and Marcelo M. Wanderley. New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction beyond the Keyboard, A-R Editions, Spring 2006. ISBN 0-89579-585-X

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Marc Battier, editors. Trends in Gestural Control of Music, Paris, Fr: IRCAM - Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000.

Miguel S. Dias, Sylvie Gibet and Marcelo M. Wanderley, editors. Advances in Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. To appear in the LNCS series by Springer Verlag in 2008.

Marcelo M. Wanderley (guest editor). “Mapping Strategies in Real-time Computer Music.” Organised Sound, 7(2), August 2002.

Book Chapters

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Bradley Vines. “Ancillary Gestures of Clarinettists”. In A. Gritten and E. King, eds. Music and Gesture, Ashgate Publishing, 2006.

Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Instrumentos Musicais Digitais - Gestos, Sensores e Interfaces." In B. Ilari, ed. Musica, Em Busca da Mente Musical, Editora da Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2006. (In Portuguese)

Claude Cadoz and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Gesture-Music." In M. Wanderley and M. Battier (eds): Trends in Gestural Control of Music. Paris: IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, 2000.

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Philippe Depalle. "Contrôle Gestuel de la Synthèse Sonore." In H. Vinet and F. Delalande (eds): Interfaces Homme-Machine et Creation Musicale. Paris: Hermès Science Publishing, 1999.

Journal Papers

Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “A Run-time Programmable Simulator to Enable Multimodal Interaction with Rigid Body Systems.” Accepted for publication in the Elsevier journal Interacting with Computers. To appear in 2008.

Vincent Verfaille, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Philippe Depalle. “Mapping Strategies for Gestural and Adaptive Control of Digital Audio Effects.” Journal of New Music Research, 35(1):71-93, 2006.

Bradley W. Vines, Carol L. Krumhansl, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Daniel J. Levitin. “Cross-modal Interactions in the Perception of Musical Performance.” Cognition. Elsevier B.V., vol. 101, pp. 80-113, 2006.

Doug Van Nort. “Noise/Music and representation systems.” Organised Sound, 11(2): 173-178, 2006.

Marcelo M. Wanderley, Bradley Vines, Neil Middleton, Cory McKay, and Wesley Hatch. “The Musical Significance of Clarinetists' Ancillary Gestures: An Exploration of the Field.” Journal of New Music Research, 34(1):97-113, 2005.

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Philippe Depalle. “Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis.” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, No. 4 (April), Special Issue on Engineering and Music - Supervisory Control and Auditory Communication, G. Johannsen, Ed., pp. 632-644, 2004.

Andy Hunt, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Matt Paradis. “The Importance of Parameter Mapping in Electronic Instrument Design.” Journal of New Music Research, 32(4):429-440, 2003.

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Nicola Orio. “Evaluation of Input Devices for Musical Expression: Borrowing Tools from HCI”. Computer Music Journal, 26(3):62-76, 2002.

Andy Hunt and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Mapping Performer Parameters to Synthesis Engines.” Organised Sound, 7(2):97-108, 2002.

Revised Proceedings

Mark T. Marshall, Joseph Malloch, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Gestural Control of Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance.” To appear in M. S. Dias, S. Gibet and M M. Wanderley (Eds.): Advances in Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, LNCS series, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Nicolas H. Rasamimanana, Delphine Bernardin, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Frederic Bevilacqua. “String Bowing Gestures at Varying Bow Stroke Frequencies: A Case Study” To appear in M. S. Dias, S. Gibet and M M. Wanderley (Eds.): Advances in Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, LNCS series, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Barbara Mazzarino, Mabuel Peinado, Ronan Boulic, Gualtiero Volpe, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Improving the believability of virtual characters using qualitative gesture analysis.” To appear in M. S. Dias, S. Gibet and M M. Wanderley (Eds.): Advances in Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, LNCS series, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "A Network-Based Framework for Collaborative Development and Performance of Digital Musical Instruments." In R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad, and K. Jensen (Eds.): CMMR 2007, - Proc. of Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2007 Conference, LNCS 4969. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 401–425, 2008.

Mark T. Marshall and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Evaluation of Sensors as Input Devices for Computer Music Interfaces." In R. Kronland-Martinet, T. Voinier, and S. Ystad (Eds.): CMMR 2005 - Proc. of Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2005 Conference, LNCS 3902. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 130-139, 2006.

Alexander R. Jensenius, Rodolphe Koehly, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Building Low-Cost Music Controllers." In R. Kronland-Martinet, T. Voinier, and S. Ystad (Eds.): CMMR 2005 - Proc. of Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2005 Conference, LNCS 3902. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 123-129, 2006.

Brad Vines, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Carol Krumhansl, Regina Nuzzo, and Daniel Levitin. "Performance Gestures of Musicians: What Structural and Emotional Information do they Convey?" In A. Camurri and G. Volpe (eds.) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction - 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy. Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 468-478.

Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Quantitative Analysis of Non-Obvious Performer Gestures." In I. Wachsmuth and T. Sowa (eds.): Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction. Springer Verlag, 2002, pp. 241-253.

Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Non-obvious Performer Gestures in Instrumental Music." In A. Braffort et al. (eds): Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. Springer Verlag, 1999, pp. 37-48.

Conference Papers (since 2004)

Alexandre Bouënard, Sylvie Gibet and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Analysis of Percussion Grip for Physically Based Character Animation.” To appear in Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE'08), Pisa, Italy, 2008.

Georgios Marentakis, Joseph Malloch, Nils Peters, Mark Marshall, Marcelo Wanderley, Stephen McAdams. “Influence of Performance Gestures on the Identification of Spatial Sound Trajectories in a Concert Hall.” In Proc. of the 2008 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD08), Paris, France, 2008.

Alexandre Bouënard, Sylvie Gibet and Marcelo M. Wanderley. ”Enhancing the Visualization of Percussion Gestures by Virtual Character Animation.” In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME08), Genoa, Italy, pp. 38-43, 2008.

Erwin Schoonderwaldt and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Visualization of Bowing Gestures for Feedback: The Hodgson Plot." In Proceedings of the I-Maestro Workshop 2007, Dec. 2007.

Carmine Cascaito and Marcelo M. Wanderley."Lessons from Long Term Gestural Controller Users.". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE'07), Grenoble, France, pp. 333-336, 2007.

Mark T. Marshall, Joseph Malloch and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Non-Conscious Control of Sound Spatialization.". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE'07), Grenoble, France, pp. 377-380, 2007.

Manfred Nusseck, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Erwin Schoonderwaldt. ”Validating Kinematic Displays for the Perception of Musical Performance.”. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE'07), Grenoble, France, pp. 381-384, 2007.

Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. ”Why Do We Need 5-DOF Force Feedback? The case of Violin Bowing.”. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE'07), Grenoble, France, pp. 397-400, 2007.

Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Extending DIMPLE: a Rigid Body Simulator for Interactive Control of Sound." In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE'07), Grenoble, France, pp. 263-266, 2007.

Rodolphe Koehly, Denis Curtil, Theodorus van de Ven and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Carbon Black Loaded Paper: An Intelligent Substrate for Electronic Sensors Design." In Proceedings of the IARIGAI 2007 Conference, Grenoble, France.

David M. Birnbaum and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "A systematic approach to musical vibrotactile feedback." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, volume II, pp. 397-404, 2007.

Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "From controller to sound: Tools for collaborative development of digital musical instruments." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, volume II, pp. 65-72, 2007.

Corey Kereliuk, Bertrand Scherrer, Vincent Verfaille, Philippe Depalle and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Indirect Acquisition of Fingerings of Harmonic Notes on the Flute." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Volume I, pp. 263-266, 2007.

Doug Van Nort, David Gauthier, Sha Xin Wei and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Extraction of Gestural Meaning from a Fabric-Based Instrument." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Volume II, pp. 441-444, 2007.

Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Using PureData to control a haptically-enabled virtual environment." In Proc. of the Pd Convention'07, Montreal, August 2007.

David Birnbaum, Freida Abtan, Sha Xin Wei and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Mapping and Dimensionality of a Cloth-based Sound Instrument.” In Proc. of the 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC'07), Lefkada, Greece, July 2007.

Joseph Malloch and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "The T-Stick: From Musical Interface to Musical Instrument." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, USA, pp. 66-69.

Doug Van Nort and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Control Strategies for Navigation of Complex Sonic Spaces." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, USA, pp. 379-382.

Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Defining a control standard for easily integrating haptic virtual environments with existing audio/visual systems." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, USA, pp. 209-212.

Avrum Hollinger, Virginia Penhune, Robert Zatorre, Christopher Steele, Marcelo M. Wanderley. "fMRI-Compatible Electronic Controllers." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, USA, pp. 246-249.

Nicolas Rasamimanana, Delphine Bernardin, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Frederic Bevilacqua. “Case study of string bowing gestures in tremolo.” Presented at the 2007 International Gesture Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal.

Barbara Mazzarino, Manuel Peinado, Ronan Boulic, Gualtiero Volpe, Marcelo Wanderley. “Improving the believability of virtual characters using qualitative gesture analysis.” Presented at the 2007 International Gesture Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal.

Mark T. Marshall, Jospeh Malloch and Marcelo M. Wanderley. ”Gesture Controlled Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance.” Presented at the 2007 International Gesture Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal.

Barbara Mazzarino, M. Peinado, Ronan Boulic, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Antonio Camurri. “Improving Human Movement Recovery Usinf Qualitative Analysis.” In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE06), Montpellier, France, 2006.

Doug van Nort and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "The LoM Mapping Toolbox for Max/MSP/Jitter." In Proc. of the 2006 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC06), New Orleans, USA, 2006.

Mark T. Marshall, Nils Peters, Alexander R. Jensenius, Julien Boissinot, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Jonas Braasch. "On the Development of a System for Gesture Control of Spatialization." In Proc. of the 2006 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC06), pp. 360-366, New Orleans, USA, 2006.

Vincent Verfaille, Julien Boissinot, Philippe Depalle, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Ssynth: a Real Time Additive Synthesizer With Flexible Control." In Proc. of the 2006 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC06), New Orleans, USA, 2006.

Joseph Malloch, David Birnbaum, Elliot Sinyor, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "A New Conceptual Framework for Digital Musical Instruments." In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-06), Montreal, Canada, pp. 49-52, 2006.

Vincent Verfaille, Oswald Quek, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Sonification of Musician's Ancillary Gestures." In the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD06), London, England, 2006.

Rodolphe Koehly, Denis Curtil, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Paper FSRs and Latex/Fabric Traction Sensors: Methods for the Development of Home-Made Touch Sensors." In the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 230-233, 2006.

Mark T. Marshall and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Vibrotactile Feedback in Digital Musical Instruments." In the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 226-229, 2006.

Anne-Marie Burns and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Visual Methods for the Retrieval of Guitarist Fingering." In the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 196-199, 2006.

Marcelo M. Wanderley, Joseph Malloch, David Birnbaum, Elliot Sinyor, and Julien Boissinot. "SensorWiki.org: A Collaborative Resource on Transducers for Researchers and Interface Designers." In the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 180-183, 2006.

Denis Lebel and Joseph Malloch. "The G-Spring Controller." In the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME06), Paris, France, pp. 85-88, 2006.

Alexander R. Jensenius, Rolf Godoy, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Developing Tools for Studying Musical Gestures within the MAX/MSP/JITTER Environment." To appear in Proc. of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2005), Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Elliot Sinyor and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Gyrotyre: A Hand-held Dynamic Computer-Music Controller Based on a Spinning Wheel." Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - NIME05, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 42-45, 2005.

Andrey da Silva, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Gary Scavone. "On the Use of Flute Air Jet as a Musical Control Variable." Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - NIME05, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 105-108, 2005.

David Birnbaum, Rebecca Fiebrink, Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Towards a Dimension Space for Musical Artifacts." Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - NIME05, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 192-195, 2005.

Paul Kolesnik and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Implementation of the Discrete Hidden Markov Model in Max / MSP Environment." Proceedings of the FLAIRS 2005 Conference.

Anne-Marie Burns and Barbara Mazzarino. “Finger Tracking Methods Using EyesWeb.” Paper presented at the 6th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation (Gesture Workshop 2005), Ile de Berder, France, May 18-20 2005.

Paul Kolesnik and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Recognition, Analysis and Performance with Expressive Conducting Gestures." In Proceedings of the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2004), Miami, Fl., 2004.

Gary Scavone and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “The Music Technology Program at McGill University.” In Proceedings of the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2004), Miami, Fl., 2004.

Manuel Peinado, Bruno Herbelin, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Benoit Le Callennec, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann. "Towards Configurable Motion Capture with Prioritized Inverse Kinematics." In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR2004), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 16 and 17, 2004.

Doug Van Nort, Marcelo M. Wanderley and Philippe Depalle. "On the Choice of Mappings based on Geometrical Properties." Proc. of the 2004 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - NIME04, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 3-5, 2004.

Philippe Zaborowski. "ThumbTec: A New Handheld Input Device." Proc. of the 2004 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - NIME04, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 3-5, 2004.

Conference Abstracts

Barbara Mazzarino, Manuel Peinado, Ronan Boulic, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “A Case Study on Qualitative Evaluation of Avatar Believability.” Presented at the 2nd ENACTIVE Workshop Montreal, Canada, 2006.

Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Charlene Ryan, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Expressiveness in Music: The Movements of the Performer and Their Effects on the Listener.” Presented at the 2006 International Conference on Music Percption and Cognition - ICMPC06, Bologna, Italy, August, 2006.

Bradley W. Vines, Ioana Dalca, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Variation in Expressive Physical Gestures of Clarinetists.” Presented at the 2006 International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - ICMPC06, Bologna, Italy, August, 2006.

Louise Campbell, Vincent Verfaille, Marie-Julie Chagnon, Oswald Quek, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Different Approaches to the Understanding of Expressive Movements of Clarinetists.” Paper presented during the Second Int. Conf. on Music and Gesture, Manchester, July, 2006.

Vincent Verfaille and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “Mapping Strategies for Sound Synthesis, Digital Audio Effects and Sonification of Performer Gestures.” Paper presented during the Acous. Soc. Am. Meeting, Rhodes Island, June 2006.

Carmine Casciato, Alexander R. Jensenius, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Studying Free Dance Movements to Music." Presented at ESCOM 2005 Performance Matters! Conference, Porto, Portugal, September 2005 (Abstract).