Aims This paper aims at gaining a theoretical understanding of the relationship between
musician and musical instrument. Thorough knowledge of the nature and value of this …

Asynchrony between tactile and auditory feedback (action-sound latency) when playing a
musical instrument is widely recognized as disruptive to musical performance. In this paper …

Physics-based sound synthesis represents a promising paradigm for the design of a
veridical and effective continuous feedback in augmented everyday contexts. In this paper …

When designing digital musical instruments the importance of low and consistent action-to-
sound latency is widely accepted. This paper investigates the effects of latency (0-20ms) on …

Continuous interaction and multisensory feedback present tremendous challenges to
designers who are mostly educated along the lines of visual thinking and discrete …

Through experience, the techniques used by professional vocalists become highly ingrained
and much of the fine muscular control needed for healthy singing is executed using well …

This paper presents an observational study of the interaction of professional percussionists
with a simplified hand percussion instrument. We reflect on how the sound-producing …

The use of transducers to excite physical modelling synthesisers with real-world audio
signals is a well-established practice within the digital musical instrument design community …

In electronic musical instruments (EMIs), the concept of “sound sculpting” was proposed by
Mulder, in which imaginary objects are manually sculpted to produce sounds, although …

This thesis deals with the study of performer-instrument interaction during the performance
of novel digital musical instruments (DMIs). Unlike acoustic instruments, digital musical …