Traditional musical instruments in Serbian folk tradition: Etnophraseological perspective

Use of Body Motion to Enhance Traditional Musical Instruments

This work describes a new approach to gesture mapping in a performance with a traditional musical instrument and live electronics inspired by theories of embodied music cognition (EMC) and musical gestures. Considerations on EMC and how gestures affect the experience of music inform different mapping strategies. Our intent is to enhance the expressiveness and the liveness of performance by trac...

Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota

Towards A Sound Recognition System for Traditional Malay Musical Instruments

In recent year, studies on music content analysis especially on musical instrument recognition system are developed extensively. However, almost all the studies are developed based on the Western musical instruments. Meanwhile, study on non-Western musical instrument especially on traditional Malay musical instrument is still lacking. With the enormous amount of instruments data and features sc...

Advancements in Actuated Musical Instruments

This article presents recent developments in actuated musical instruments created by the authors, who also describe an ecosystemic model of actuated performance activities that blur traditional boundaries between the physical and virtual elements of musical interfaces. Actuated musical instruments are physical instruments that have been endowed with virtual qualities controlled by a computer in...

Bimanuality in Alternate Musical Instruments

This paper presents a study of bimanual control applied to sound synthesis. This study deals with coordination, cooperation, and abilities of our hands in musical context. We describe examples of instruments made using subtractive synthesis, scanned synthesis in Max/MSP and commercial stand-alone software synthesizers via MIDI communication protocol. These instruments have been designed accordi...