Biography:

Co-director, Graphics and Experiential Media (GEM) Lab
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Research Statement:

My research focuses on Human Computer Interaction, especially as applied to creative and expressive interaction with digital tools. I create new digital musical instruments (including the T-Stick and the Spine) and intermedia mapping tools (including libmapper and its surrounding ecosystem of tools). I am also interested in appropriating tools and approaches from performative and artistic interaction and applying them to human-computer activities that are normally considered to be prosaic such as target selection, command invocation, and text entry.

Research Areas:

• Haptics: Tactile and Force-Feedback
• Hardware Development
• Interface Design
• Interface Evaluation
• Mapping
• Sensors
• Software Development

Projects

Publications:

• (2014-09-01). Advances in the Design of Mapping for Computer Music. In Computer Music Journal. Marcelo M. Wanderley, Joseph Malloch (Eds.). Computer Music Journal, MIT Press.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2018-01-15). Generalized Multi-Instance Control Mapping for Interactive Media Systems. In IEEE Multimedia (pp. 39-50).
• Johnty Wang, Joseph Malloch, Stéphane Huot, Fanny Chevalier, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2017-07-05). Versioning and Annotation Support for Collaborative Mapping Design. In Sound and Music Computing.
• Johnty Wang, Jospeh Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Jonathan Wilansky, Aaron Krajeski, and Marcelo M. Wanderley (2019-10-14). Webmapper: A Tool for Visualizing and Manipulating Mappings in Digital Musical Instruments. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR). Marseille, France.
• Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2007-06-07). The T-Stick : From Musical Interface to Musical Instrument. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007) (pp. 66--69). New York City, NY, USA.
• Alex Nieva, Johnty Wang, Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2018-06-03). The T-Stick: Maintaining a 12 year-old digital musical instrument. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2018) (pp. 198–199). Blacksburg, VA, USA.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2015-08-15). Distributed Tools for Interactive Design of Heterogeneous Signal Networks. In Multimedia Tools and Applications (pp. 5683-5707).
• Jeronimo Barbosa, Joseph Malloch, Stéphane Huot, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2015-05-16). What does ‘Evaluation’ mean for the NIME community?. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2015). Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
• Joseph Malloch, Jérémie Garcia, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Wendy E. Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Stéphane Huot (2019-02-07). A Design Workbench for Interactive Music Systems. In New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction. (pp. 23-40). Simon Holland, Tom Mudd, Katie Wilkie-McKenna, Andrew McPherson, Marcelo M. Wanderley (Eds.). Springer, Cham.
• Joseph Malloch (2007-07-02). A Consort of Gestural Musical Controllers: Design, Construction, and Performance. In M.A. thesis, McGill University. Montreal, Canada.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2007-07-02). From controller to sound: Tools for collaborative development of digital musical instruments. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2007) (pp. 65–72). Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2008-07-03). A network-based framework for collaborative development and performance of digital musical instruments. In CMMR 2007, - Proceedings of Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2007 Conference, LNCS 4969 (pp. 401–425). R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad, K. Jensen (Eds.). Springer Verlag.Berlin, Germany.
• Joseph Malloch (2013-11-04). A Framework and Tools for Mapping of Digital Musical Instruments. In Ph.D. thesis, Music Technology. Montreal, Canada.
• Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2017-05-01). Embodied Cognition and Digital Musical Instruments: Design and Performance. In The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction (pp. 438–447). M. Lesaffre, M. Leman, P.-J. Maes (Eds.).
• Christian Frisson, Mathias Bredholt, Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2021-06-15). MapLooper: Live-looping of distributed gesture-to-sound mappings. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021). Shanghai, China.
• Filipe Calegario, João Tragtenberg, Christian Frisson, Eduardo Meneses, Joseph Malloch, Vincent Cusson, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2021-06-15). Documentation and Replicability in the NIME Community. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021).. Shanghai, China.
• Ian Hattwick, Joseph Malloch, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2014-06-30). Forming Shapes to Bodies: Design for Manufacturing in the Prosthetic Instruments. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2014) (pp. 443–448). London, UK.
• Joseph Malloch, David Birnbaum, Elliot Sinyor, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2006-06-01). A New Conceptual Framework for Digital Musical Instruments. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-06) (pp. 49–52). Montreal, Qc, Canada.
• Brady Boettcher, Joseph Malloch, Johnty Wang, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2022-06-28). Mapper4Live: Using Control Structures to Embed Complex Mapping Tools into Ableton Live. In New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2022.
• Brady Boettcher, Eduardo Meneses, Christian Frisson, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Joseph Malloch (2023-06-01). Addressing Barriers for Entry and Operation of a Distributed Signal Mapping Framework. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2023). Mexico City, MX.
• Joseph Malloch, Marlon Schumacher, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2018-06-01). The Digital Orchestra Toolbox for MAX. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2018). Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Contacts:

• Email: jmalloch@dal.ca
• Website: http://www.josephmalloch.com/