Stephen Sinclair

Ph.D. in Music Technology
Supervisors: Prof. Marcelo M. Wanderley and Prof. Vincent Hayward (Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill)

• Human-computer interaction
• Haptics
• Software interfaces for music

• BSc. Computer Science, Concordia University (Montreal)
• M.A. Music Technology, McGill University (Montreal)
• Ph.D. (currently) Music Technology, McGill University (Montreal)

• Force feedback for audio systems
• McGill Digital Orchestra - Research Assistant
• Integra - Research Assistant
• LoopDub - Author
• pyScore - Contributor

• Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. Why do we need 5-DOF haptics? The case of violin bowing. Proceedings of the ENACTIVE '07 Conference, Grenoble, France. Nov. 2007.
• Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. Extending DIMPLE: a Rigid Body Simulator for Interactive Control of Sound. Proceedings of the ENACTIVE'07 Conference, Grenoble, France, Nov. 2007.
• Stephen Sinclair. Force-Feedback Hand Controllers for Musical Interaction, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. From controller to sound: Tools for collaborative development of digital musical instruments. Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• S. Sinclair, M. Wanderley. 2007. Using PureData to control a haptically-enabled virtual environment. PureData convention 2007, Montreal.
• S. Sinclair, M. Wanderley. 2007. Defining a control standard for easily integrating haptic virtual environments with existing audio/visual systems. Proc. of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
• S. Sinclair, M. Droettboom, I. Fujinaga. 2006. Lilypond for pyScore: Approaching a universal translator for music notation. ISMIR 2006, Victoria, BC.

• Home page: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/
• Email: sinclair [at] music [dot] mcgill [dot] ca