Biography:

With a background in electrical and computer engineering, Johnty is working on sensor interfaces and mapping tools for digital musical instruments. He is supported by an NSERC Industrial Innovation Scholarship in collaboration with Infusion Systems, makers of the I-CubeX sensors.

Résumé – CV – Projects Portfolio

Research Areas:

• Communication Protocols
• Embedded Systems
• Hardware Development
• Interface Design
• Mapping
• Sensors
• Software Development

Projects

Publications:

• Johnty Wang, Bob Pritchard, Bryn Nixon, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2017-07-05). Explorations with Digital Control of MIDI-enabled Pipe Organs. In Sound and Music Computing.
• 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.
• 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.
• Eduardo Meneses, Johnty Wang, Sergio Freire, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2019-06-03). A Comparison of Open-Source Linux Frameworks for an Augmented Musical Instrument Implementation. In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2019). Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Johnty Wang, Axel Mulder, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2019-06-03). Practical Considerations for MIDI over Bluetooth Low Energy as a Wireless Interface. In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2019). Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• 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.
• Johnty Wang, Eduardo Meneses, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2020-07-21). The Scalability of WiFi for Mobile Embedded Sensor Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020). Birmingham, U.K..
• Filipe Calegario, João Tragtenberg, Johnty Wang, Ivan Franco, Eduardo A. L. Meneses, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2020-06-27). Open Source DMIs: towards a replication certification for online shared projects of digital musical instruments. In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) (pp. 14). Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Filipe Calegario, Marcelo Wanderley, João Tragtenberg, Johnty Wang, John Sullivan, Eduardo Meneses, Ivan Franco, Mathias Kirkegaard, Mathias Bredholt, Josh Rohs (2020-07-21). Probatio 1.0: collaborative development of a toolkit for functional DMI prototypes. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) (pp. 6). Birmingham, UK.
• Felipe Verdugo, Suzuka Kokubu, Johnty Wang, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2020-07-16). MappEMG: Supporting Musical Expression with Vibrotactile Feedback by Capturing Gestural Features through Electromyography. In Proc. of the International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID). Montreal, Canada.
• Geise Santos, Johnty Wang, Carolina Medeiros, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Tiago Tavares, Anderson Rocha (2021-06-14). Comparative Latency Analysis of Optical and Inertial Motion Capture Systems for Gestural Analysis and Musical Performance. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021). Shanghai, China.
• 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.

Contacts:

• Email: johnty.wang@mail.mcgill.ca
• Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johntywang/