QWERTY Caster - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Music Controllers / Prehistory
Except perhaps for keyboards, the concept of music
controller is alien to acoustic music instruments
The theremin, one of the first and still more famous,
electronic instruments (famous because of the way it is
played -- i.e. without touching it), is a full instrument,
not a controller
Clara Rockmore performs Saint-Saëns’ "The Swan"
Canadian musician and researcher Hugh LeCaine, was
between 1940s-70s a pioneer in the field of electric and
electronic instruments
electronic sackbut (1945-73)
Sergi Jordà, Music Technology Group
IUA, UPF – Barcelona, 2008