ABSTRACT

This presentation focuses on three new Digital Musical Instruments developed during the CIRMMT/McGill Digital Orchestra Project: the FM Gloves, the T-Stick and the Rulers. The authors discuss issues surrounding the development of performance practice with these instruments, with emphasis on questions of mapping, notation and sound balance. Below you can download the presentation slides, the related paper that was given at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2009 in Minneapolis, and view some performance videos.

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The CIRMMT / McGill Digital Orchestra Project
The FM Gloves
The Rulers
The T-Stick
Peter Shea interviews Xenia Pestova and Erika Donald in Minneapolis

Composer/performer D. Andrew Stewart playing his composition "Everybody to the power of one" on a soprano T-Stick, which he calls the "sonar jo," at the SAT in Montréal:


Everybody to the power of one from Joseph Malloch on Vimeo.

The McGill Digital Orchestra project performing "The Long and the Short of It" by Heather Hindman for new Digital Musical Instruments during the 2008 MusiMars Contemporary Music Festival at McGill University, Montréal:


The Long and the Short of It from IDMIL on Vimeo.

The McGill Digital Orchestra project performing D. Andrew Stewart's "sounds between our minds" for new Digital Musical Instruments during the Music+Technology Incubator at CIRMMT, McGill University, Montréal:


sounds between our minds from IDMIL on Vimeo.