Resources

Tools

• Arduino - microcontroller/sensor interface
• Firmata - firmware/protocol for Arduino and other microcontrollers
• Max/MSP - media programming environment
• OpenFrameworks - C++ frameworks for performance with video tracking
• Pure Data (aka Pd) - media programming environment
• reacTIVision - video tracking for table interfaces
• Supercollider - music programming environment

Suggested Readings

• Capturing Sound - How Technology Has Changed Music - Chapter 1 (local mirror), Mark Katz
• Principles for Designing Computer Music Controller (local mirror), Perry Cook
• Deck Wreckers: The Turntable as Musical Instrument, Peter Shapiro

Books and Resources

• FLOSS Manuals: Pure Data
• Programming Electronic Music in Pd
• The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music
• Designing Sound
• Intelligent Digital Effects blog
• NIME conference 2010 Proceeding
• NIME conference proceedings through 2006
• Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance - text recommended by Music Tech Dept
• https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pubs.html Also recommended by Music Tech Dept: online work at CCRMA specifically that of Julius Orion Smith
• Getting a Bigger Sound: Pickups and Microphones for Your Musical Instrument By Bart Hopkin
• Handbook of Recording Engineering

ITP NIME Show Video Documentation

• 2008 NIME Performances
• 2009 NIME Performances
• 2010 NIME Performances

Performances

• Michael Waisvisz - the Hands, @ NIME'03 in Montreal (video)
• Scribble, visual instrument performance by Golan Levin, Greg Shakar,
• artificiel cubing, performance with Rubik's Cubes (video)
• Mouse on Mars - Twift Shoeblade - performance with TB303 (video)
• Wheel Experience - Younnat - performance with game controller steering wheel (video)
• Effet Papillon - Mylene Benoit / Cie Contour Progressif (video), dancers with sensors
• Daedelus - Live in San Antonio - Outtro, performance with Monome interface (video)
• reacTable: improvisation demo, visual table interface (video)
• Tetrishead, by Zoe Keating with the Quantum Cello, self-sampling and looping (video)
• vienna vegetable orchestra (video)
• Imogen Heap - "Just For Now", self-sampling and looping performance (video)

Instruments

• OTTO
• monome
• Tenori-on
• Eigenharp
• Gypsy MIDI

Venues and Festivals

• share - open jams every sunday
• Blip Festival - chip tunes and 8-bit music
• Bent Festival - circuit bending
• Monkey Town - performance venue
• The Tank - performance venue
• Lemurplex - performance venue and workshops
• Issue Project Room - performance venue

Journals and Conferences

• New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference
• Computer Music Journal (index) (need to use the NYU proxy to access)
• Mobile Music Workshop
• Leonardo Music Journal (need to use the NYU proxy to access)
• International Computer Music Conference
• Conference on Enactive Interfaces

Audio Engineering / Technical

• Interesting article about connecting headphone outputs to line inputs
• MEMS Microphones
• Handy EQ Reference