The space between the notes: Adding expressive pitch control to the piano keyboard

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2195-2204

  McPherson, Andrew P ^a   Gierakowski, Adrian ^a   Stark, Adam M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacitive touch sensing; Digital arts; Expressivity; Musical interfaces; Performance technique; Piano keyboard

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING; DIGITAL ART; EXPRESSIVITY; PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUE; PIANO KEYBOARD;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877976157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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