Background

Essential reading
“On Sound Design”, meeting 1-3 and 7m discussions from the sound conference Hör upp! in Stockholm. June 1998.
Winkler, Todd. “Introduction and Background” and “ Interaction: Defining Relationships Between Computers and Performers”, in his book “Composing Interactive Music”.
Cook, Perry. “Principles for Designing Computer Music Controllers”. [PDF]
Verplank, B., Sapp, C. And Mathews. M “A Course on Controllers”.[PDF]
Excerpts from “How to Handle Hands”, Form+Zwerk, v. 18, 2001.
Winkler, Todd. “Making Motion Musical: Gesture Mapping Strategies for Interactive Computer Music”. [text]
Paradiso, Joseph. “Electronic Music Interfaces”. [text]
Cascone, Kim. “The Aesthetics of Failure: ‘Post-Digital’ Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music”. [PDF]

History and background
“MODULATIONS, A History of Electronic Music – Throbbing Words on Sound” _ Ed. By Peter Shapiro (Ed. D.a.p. caipirinha)
“Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sounds in the Arts”_ Douglas Kahn (Ed. MIT press)
“Sonic Boom”_ David Toop
“Acoustic Communication”_ Barry Truax (Ed. Ablex Publishing)
Chang, Jaeho. Composing Noise, Thesis.
Andrew Schloss and David A. Jaffe. "Intelligent Musical Instruments: The Future of Musical Performance or the Demise of the Performer?" [site]
Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen. Turntable Music (history), Thesis.
Axel Mulder. Virtual Musical Instruments. (gestural interfaces)
Philip Tagg. Reading Sounds: An essay on sounds, music, knowledge, rock & society.
MIT responsive environmentes publications
Mark Prendergast. The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance - The Evolution of Sound in the electronic Age



Projects + Examples

Interfaces and Controllers
STEIM physical interface projects
Dominic Robson [PDF]
Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab [triangles]
MIT Media Lab hyperinstruments [squeezeables] [emonator] [musical jacket]
Stratifier
MIT Media Lab, Brain Opera [technology] [baton picture, technology, video] [gesture wall diagram, sensing PDF, video ]

Design and art projects
Benoît Maubrey / AUDIO GRUPPE: projects, ballerinas [movie 1] [movie 2], speakers corner,
Christian Möller [Audio Grove] [Light/Audio Park]
Toshio Iwai [Resonance of 4] [Piano]
James Tu [music by light]
Dean Wilson Pendulum [video]

Instruments
Electronic Musical Instruments 1870 - 1990
KTH SensOrg
Viennese Vegetable Orchestra
Chelle Hughes [Personal Instrument]

Interaction Issues
Weinberg and Gan. Squeezeables [printed paper].
Morales-Manzanares, Morales, Dannenberg, Berger. "SICIB: An Interactive Music Composition Using Body Movements" [printed paper].
Bert Bongers. "Exploring novel ways of interaction in musical performance" (includes 'lady's glove' project) [PDF]
Kenji Mase and Tomoko Yonezawa. "Body, Clothes, Water and Toys" [PDF]
Tina Blaine and Tim Perkis, Jam-O-Drum. [PDF]
Andy Hunt, Marcelo M. Wanderley and Ross Kirk. "Towards a Model for Instrumental Mapping in Expert Musical Interaction" [PDF]

Musicians
Sensorband
Kid606
Funkstörung
Aphex Twin
Matmos
Squarepusher
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Hildegard Westerkamp





Resources


Research groups
IRCAM
STEIM
MIT Medialab - MMM
Speech, Music and Hearing
KACOR
DIKU – Music Informatics Group
TKK Akustiikka
MTG
CCRMA
OSU Dance Technology
CMC
CNMAT
ZKM
IFTAF
INA/GRM
Sounding Object Project
CARTAH
6 villages

Tools
MAX/MSP
PD
I-cube
Csound
Littlesounddj
Nanoloop
Minimusic
KOAN
Lightning II, Buchla and Associates
D.I.Y.
AID art interface device

Communities and lists
ICMA
Fylkingen
EMF
Futuresonic
NoTAM
Hand-Held Music Community
Loopersdelight
Interactive Systems and Instrument Design in Music
The Nursery
Djbattle
D&B Arena
Sonic Arts Network
Gesture research in music
Dance Technology Zone
Experimental music Instruments
SIGSOUND
Axel's list of webpages
Harmonic forum list
Brainwashed
CMC dorkbot
IRCAM gesture discussion

Magazines and books
Computer Music Journal
Leonardo Sound Journal
The Wire
Groovesmag
Paletten sept. 01
Motion
New Music Box
URB
ubu
CDemusic
“Composing Interactive Music”_ Todd Winkler (Ed. MIT Press)
“MODULATIONS, A History of Electronic Music – Throbbing Words on Sound” _ Ed. By Peter Shapiro (Ed. D.a.p. caipirinha)
“Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sounds in the Arts”_ Douglas Kahn (Ed. MIT press)
“Oceans of Sounds”_ David Toop
“Sonic Boom”_ David Toop
“Acoustic Communication”_ Barry Truax (Ed. Ablex Publishing)
“Experimental Music (Cage and Beyond)” _ Michael Nyman
“Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music” – Derek Bailey
“Interactive Music Systems” _ Robert Rowe
“Trends in Gestural Control of Music” (eBook)

Conferences and festivals
ICMC
NIME
Ars Electronica
DAFX
Résonances
ICAD
PEVOC
Futuresonic Festival
Impakt

A couple of nice labels
Warp Records
Mo’Wax
Mille Plateaux
Synchrovision
Caipirinha Productions
Ninja Tunes
Rephlex
Audiorom
Dirtyloop