Sonic Engineering

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Dr Ajay Kapur Prof Dale Carnegie

Description of Topic

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Current Students

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Past Project: MechBass

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Owen Vallis, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Jordan Hochenbaum, and Ajay Kapur. "Building on the foundations of network music: exploring interaction contexts and shared robotic instruments". Organized Sound, vol. 17, pp. 62-72, 2012. [ bib ]
Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur, and Dale Carnegie. "Musical Robotics in a Loudspeaker World: Developments in Alternative Approaches to Localization and Spatialization". Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 22, pp. 41-48, 2012. [ http bib ]
Owen Vallis, and Ajay Kapur. "Community Based Design: The Democratization of Musical Interface Construction". The Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 21, pp. 29-34, 2011. [ bib ]
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Jim Murphy, Jordan Hochenbaum, Owen Vallis, and Curtis Bahn. "The Machine Orchestra: An Ensemble of Human Laptop Performers and Robotic Musical Instruments". The Computer Music Journal, vol. 35, pp. 49-63, 2011. [ bib ]
Adam R Tindale, Ajay Kapur, and George Tzanetakis. "Training Surrogate Sensors in Musical Gesture Acquisition Systems". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 13, pp. 50-59, 2011. [ bib ]

Conference Proceedings

Jordan Hochenbaum, and Ajay Kapur. "Improving onset detection: accuracy in non-percussive sounds using multimodal fusion" in Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference. 2012 pp. 140-144. [ bib ]
DA Carnegie, JW Murphy, and A Kapur. "Interacting with Solenoid Drummers: A Quantitative Approach to Composing and Performing with Open-Loop Solenoid-Based Robotic Percussion Systems" in Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), Brisbane, Australia. July 2012. [ bib ]
J McVay, DA Carnegie, JW Murphy, and A Kapur. "MechBass: A Systems Overview of a New Four-Stringed Robotic Bass Guitar" in Proceedings of the 19th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), Dunedin, New Zealand. December 2012 pp. 145-150. ISBN: 978-0-473-23275-7. [ bib ]
Blake Johnston, and Ajay Kapur. "EZither: extended techniques for customised digital bowed string instrument" in Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference. 2012 pp. 39-43. [ bib ]
Blake Johnston, Owen Vallis, and Ajay Kapur. "A Comparative User Study of Two Methods of Control on a Multi-Touch Surface for Musical Expression" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2012 pp. 1-4. [ bib ]
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, and Raahki Kapur. "Don't Forget the Machines: Orchestra of Humans, Laptops, and Robots" in 1st Symposium on Laptop Ensembles & Orchestras. 2012 pp. 80-81. [ bib ]
Ajay Kapur, Jim Murphy, and Dale Carnegie. "Kritaanjli: A Robotic Harmonium for Performance, Pedogogy and Research" in Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2012 pp. 1-4. [ bib ]
Jordan Hochenbaum, and Ajay Kapur. "Drum Stroke Computing: Multimodal Signal Processing for Drum Stroke Identification and Performance Metrics" in International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2012 pp. 1-5. [ bib ]
Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur, and Dale Carnegie. "Better Drumming Through Calibration: Techniques for Pre-Performance Robotic Percussion Optimization" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces and Musical Expression, Ann Arbor, Michigan. May 2012 pp. 1-4. ISBN: 978-0-9855720-0-6. [ bib ]
Jordan Hochenbaum, and Ajay Kapur. "Adding Z-depth and pressure expressivity to tangible tabletop surfaces" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2011. [ bib ]
Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Ajay Kapur. "HIDUINO: A Firmware for Building Driverless USB-MIDI Devices using the Arduino Microcontroller" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2011. [ bib ]
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, Jim Murphy, Jordan Hochenbaum, Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Trimpin. "The KarmetiK NotomotoN: A new Breed of Musical Robot for Teaching and Performance" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2011. [ bib ]