QWERTY Caster - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

“Traditional” Controllers !!
Most of the music controllers being developed prolong the traditional
instrument paradigm. Trying perhaps to exorcise forty years of tape
music, researchers in the field of new musical interfaces tend to
conceive new musical instruments highly inspired by traditional ones,
most often designed to be ‘worn’ and played all the time, and offering
continuous, synchronous and precise control over a few dimensions.
An intimate, sensitive and not necessarily highly dimensional interface
of this kind (i.e. more like a violin bow, a mouthpiece or a joystick,
than like a piano) will be ideally suited for direct microcontrol (i.e.
sound, timbre, articulation). However, for macrostructural, indirect or
higher level control, a non-wearable interface distributed in space and
allowing intermittent access (i.e. more like a piano or a drum) should
be undeniably preferred (Jordà 2005).
Sergi Jordà, Music Technology Group
IUA, UPF – Barcelona, 2008