Learning a relationship with sound
A gesture does not become a musical control just because a sensor can detect it. A player has to learn how a movement changes the sound, how far to move, and how to repeat the result. I am interested in that process, especially when people bring different movement ranges and different musical experience to the same interface.
A connection to movement research
I recently joined Andrew Gordon’s Hand Motor Control Lab at Teachers College. I want to learn from movement research as I develop musical interfaces: how a task is defined, how movement and feedback are measured, and how changes with practice can be distinguished from changes in the device itself.
Questions for musical interfaces
For a controller such as Exoglove, I want to ask how visual and auditory feedback help someone find a target, hold a steady control value, and learn a repeatable gesture. Another question is what happens when a previously learned movement meets a changed mapping or a differently fitted glove. These are questions for future study, not findings from the lab.
An early direction
A concrete lab task and dataset are still to be established. This page describes the connection I am developing between movement research and musical interaction. As the work becomes more specific, I will add the actual methods, materials, and results here.