Clarinet Gestural Analysis

John Sullivan

Description:

We are interested in analyzing the correlation between physical and musical gestures. We specifically
focus on expressive movements (also called ancillary or non-obvious gestures), movements that do
not have a direct link to the generation of sound but are an integral part of the performance.

Expected results, in addition to a better understanding of music performance and the role of expressive movements,
include the design of new computer-based musical instruments as well as hardware interfaces that take expressive
movements into account.

Please check the full document at https://idmil.org/education/clarinet-gestural-analysis/.

Fig.1 Brad Vines at the Motor Control Laboratory.
Fig.2 Pierre Dutrieu at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Points are tracked in three dimensions.

IDMIL Participants:

Marcelo M. Wanderley

External Participants:

Louise Campbell
Oswald Quek
Prof. Charlene Ryan (Music Education – McGill)
Prof. Jean-Guy Boisvert (University of Moncton)

Former Participants:

Marie-Julie Chagnon
Paul Kolesnik
Bradley Vines
Wesley Hatch
Cory McKay
Neil Middleton
Charles Verron

Research Areas:

Movement Analysis

Funding:

Canada foundation for innovation
Fonds Nature et technologies

Publications:

Wanderley, M. M., Vines, B. (2006). Origins and Function of Clarinettists’ Ancillary Gestures. In Music and Gesture: New Perspectives on Theory and Contemporary Practice. Gritten, A., King, E. (Eds.).
Wanderley, M. M., Middleton, N., McKay, C., Hatch, W., Vines, B. W. (2004). Expressive Movements of Clarinetists: Quantification and Musical Considerations. In (PDF document, 1.6 Mbytes) Copyright: McGill University.
Wanderley, M. M., Depalle, P. (2004). Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis. In Proceedings of the IEEE - Special Issue on Engineering and Music - Supervisory Control and Auditory Communication (pp. 632-644).
Wanderley, M. M., Depalle, P. (2001). Gesturally-Controlled Digital Audio Effects. In Proceedings of the COST-6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx2001) (pp. 165-169). Limerick, Ireland.
Campbell, L. (2005). The Observation of Movement. In Report MUMT-609 Seminar. Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (PDF document, 432 kbytes) Copyright: McGill University.
Campbell, L., Chagnon, M., Wanderley, M. M. (2005). On the use of Laban-Bartenieff techniques to describe ancillary gestures of clarinetists. In Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (PDF document, 584 kbytes) Copyright: McGill University.
Verron, C. (2005). Traitement et visualisation de données gestuelles captées par Optotrak. In Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (PDF document, 1.9 Mbytes) Copyright: McGill University.
Wanderley, M. M., Depalle, P., Warusfel, O. (1999). Improving Instrumental Sound Synthesis by Modeling the Effects of Performer Gesture. In Proceedings of the international Computer Music Conference (pp. 418-421).
Wanderley, M. M. (1999). Non-Obvious Performer Gestures in Instrumental Music. In Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 37-48). Braffort, A., Gherbi, R., Gibet, S., Richardson, J., Teil, D. (Eds.).
Wanderley, M. M. (2002). Quantitative Analysis of Non-obvious Performer Gestures. In Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 241-253). Wachsmuth and Sowa, I. T. (Eds.).