February, 2012

The [Gesturally Extended Piano] is an extended instrument that tracks four points on the pianist’s forearms and hands in order to control real-time processing and synthesis. Motions that extend relatively naturally from standard piano technique—such as flexing the wrists and rotation of the forearms—can be used to modulate sound transformation parameters. A very basic example is pitch-bending. By playing a note and rotating the wrist to the left and right, pitch can be bent downwards or upwards.



The holiday update of timbreID (version 0.6) is finished. Changes include a native onset detection object that works in real- and non-real-time (bark~), improved feature list processing objects, and a bugfix in the concatenative ID method for timbreID. The examples package was also updated to include an auto-wah-wah patch, a similarity matrix plotter, and an improved timbre-space patch with a minimum dB threshold, a full feature data display window that updates on grain mouseover, and a method for loading full directories of separate samples.