interface : Electronic Chamber Ensemble

TL;DR

This paper details the development of interactive musical interfaces, including gestural instruments and spherical speaker arrays, for improvisational music by the duo 'interface', highlighting design, construction, and musical applications.

Contribution

It introduces novel interactive performance interfaces and sensor-speaker-array systems for improvisational music, with practical examples and system descriptions.

Findings

Development of gestural instrument designs

Implementation of spherical speaker arrays for music

Published examples of new musical works

Abstract

This paper presents the interface developments and music of the duo "interface," formed by Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman. We describe gestural instrument design, interactive performance interfaces for improvisational music, spherical speakers (multi-channel, outward-radiating geodesic speaker arrays) and Sensor-Speaker-Arrays (SenSAs: combinations of various sensor devices with spherical speaker arrays). We discuss the concept, design and construction of these systems, and, give examples from several newly published CDs of work by Bahn and Trueman.