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

• Human-computer interaction
• Haptics

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

• libmapper - software for network-enabled mapping
• Force feedback for audio systems
• McGill Digital Orchestra - Research Assistant
• Integra - Research Assistant
• LoopDub - Author
• pyScore - Contributor

• Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "A Run-time Programmable Simulator to Enable Multimodal Interaction with Rigid Body Systems". Interacting with Computers, Special issue on Enactive Interfaces, 21(1-2):54-63, 2009.

• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Avrum Hollinger and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Input Devices and Music Interaction" In Jorge Solis and Kia Ng, eds. Musical Robots and Interactive Music Systems, Springer Verlag, 2011.

• Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Vincent Hayward and Gary Scavone. ”Noise-free haptic interaction with a bowed-string acoustic model”. In IEEE World Haptics Conference 2011.
• Stephen Sinclair, Jean-Loup Florens and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "A Haptic Simulator for Gestural Interaction with the Bowed String". In Proceedings of the Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA), Lyon, France, 2010.
• Mark Zadel, Stephen Sinclair and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Haptic feedback for Different Strokes using DIMPLE". In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), pp. 291-294, Montreal, Qc., Canada, 2009.
• Stephen Sinclair, Gary Scavone and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Audio-Haptic Interaction with the Digital Waveguide Bowed String". In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), pp. 275-278, Montreal, Qc., Canada, 2009.
• Xenia Pestova, Erika Donald, Heather Hindman, Joseph Malloch, Mark T. Marshall, Fernando Rocha, Stephen Sinclair, D. Andrew Stewart, Marcelo M. Wanderley, and Sean Ferguson. "The CIRMMT/McGill Digital Orchestra Project". In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), pp. 295-298, Montreal, Qc., Canada, 2009.
• 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