This paper deals with the question of how the development of new musical artifacts can benefit from deeply engaging with contemporary musical practice. With the novel ideas produced by the NIME community manifested in musical instruments in continuous use, new research questions can be answered and new sources of knowledge can be explored. This can also be very helpful in evaluation, as it is p...

In this paper, we describe the design and applications of “CosTune” (costume + tune), which is a novel wearable musical instrument. A CosTune is not only a personal wearable musical instrument but also is equipped with wireless communications functions to communicate with other CosTunes. A prototype system is also described. Music is a powerful communications medium, therefore, we designed CosT...

The aim of this study was to develop an electronic musical instrument that can be played by severely disabled people with quadriplegia to improve their QOL. Conventional wind, stringed, and percussion instruments are unsuitable for quadriplegics, since such instruments require delicate movement of the upper limbs. Therefore, we have developed an electronic musical instrument that can be played ...

The Iamascope is an interactive, electronic kaleidoscope. The Iamascope combines computer video, graphics, vision, and audio technology for performers to create striking imagery and sound with this aesthetically uplifting interactive device. In the installation, the user takes the place of a colourful piece of oating glass inside the kaleidoscope, and simultaneously views a kaleidoscopic image ...

New Interfaces for Musical Expression must speak to the nature of ‘instrument’, that is, it must always be understood that the interface binds to a complex musical phenomenon. This paper explores the nature of engagement, the point of performance that occurs when a human being engages with a computer based instrument. It asks questions about the nature of the instrument in computer music and of...

This paper describes the Robotic Taishogoto, a new robotic musical instrument for performance, musical installations, and educational purposes. The primary goals of its creation are to provide an easy to use, cost effective, compact and integrated acoustic instrument which is fully automated and controllable via standard MIDI commands. This paper describes the technical details of its design an...

The paper presents the SoundSaber a musical instrument based on motion capture technology. We present technical details of the instrument and discuss the design development process. The SoundSaber may be used as an example of how high-fidelity motion capture equipment can be used for prototyping musical instruments, and we illustrate this with an example of a low-cost implementation of our moti...

Multipitch estimation is an important and difficult problem in entertainment computing. In this paper a flexible harmonic temporal structure for modeling musical instrument was proposed for estimating pitch in real music. Unlike the previous research, the proposed model does multipitch estimation according to the specific characteristics of specific musical instrument and uses EM algorithm to e...

Automatic musical genre classification is very useful for many musical applications. In this paper, the features of instrument distribution and instrument-based notes are proposed to represent the high-level characteristics of music. Experimental results show that the proposed features have a good performance in musical genre classification. Comparison between our proposed features with the com...