Approximately every two years an interdisciplinary seminar on Digital Musical Instruments
is offered at The Schulich School of Music. In contrast to seminars on HCI and sensing
offered as part of the Music Technology program, this seminar is offered equally to performers,
composers, and music technology students, and is taught jointly by Marcelo Wanderley
from the Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab (IDMIL) and Sean Ferguson, who heads
the Digital Composition Studio (DCS). Students are asked to form groups in which each
discipline is represented, and are tasked with designing, constructing, composing for, and
performing on a new digital musical instrument over the course of one semester. This
extremely accelerated schedule has nevertheless resulted in some very interesting projects,
from both technological and artistic perspectives. Video recordings of some of the past
seminar performances are available on the DCS website [52].
The Schulich School of Music is part of McGill University. The video recordings mentioned can be found on this page at the top, links to a small clip and the full presentation. No doubt some interesting things to be found. Further down the page are some images of some of the instruments presented along with their names for further reference.
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