Theses

Forthcoming

  • Alexandre Savard. “When Gestures are Perceived through Sounds: A Framework for Sonification of Musicians’ Ancillary Gestures”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. Forthcoming, July 2008.
  • Avrum Hollinger “Design of fMRI Compatible Musical Controllers”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. Forthcoming, June 2008.

Completed

  • Paul Kolesnik. “Conducting Gesture Recognition, Analysis and Performance System”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. June 2004. PDF document (6.1 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)
  • Stephen Sinclair. “Force-Feedback Hand Controllers for Musical Interaction”, M.A. thesis, McGill University. August 2007. PDF document (3.1 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)
  • 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. PDF document (5 MBytes).

Books

  • 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.
  • 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.

Journal Papers

  • 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

  • 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.

Conference Papers (since 2004)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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).