Research On The Innovation Path And Application Practice Of Interactive Music Controllers From 2000 To 2015

Digital Musical Instrument(DMI),also known as New Interfaces for Musical Expression and Data-Driven Instruments,is an requisite part of interactive music.It's seen most frequently in the performance of electronic music,especially in the real-time and interactive style.When we play DMI,the common model is that the instrument capture the player's motion,and map the motion data into parameters of sound synthesizer or the envelope of music progress in real-time.In the first fifteen years of the 21st century,with the maturity of sensor and computer technology,the threshold of design a digital musical instrument is much lower than ever before.Even a composer can also design and make it by himself.This has become an important path to explore the new music style.In the development process,there are two issues that need to be solved.One is about the designing.How to make the instrument easy to get started,but also allowing professional players to develop the skill of performance by practice.Another is when performing on the stage,what kind of playing gesture can make audiences appreciate the music easily.Therefore,the research includes two aspects-theory and practice.The main purpose is to explore the ways and branches of the development and summarize these rules.Based on the investigation for papers and concert works during 15 years in annual conferences of New Interfaces for Musical Expression and International Computer Music Conference,three main results were presented.One is a classification of technology and development in DMI.Another is the path of performance practice.The third result is the limitation and bottleneck of DMI.These results summarized the rules of design and performance,and it may enlighten more musicians to creating music by new ways.