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====== The T-Stick ======
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|title=The T-Stick|
|participants=[[people:Joseph Malloch]]\\
 [[people:D. Andrew Stewart]] (DCS)\\
 [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]] (supervisor)|
|funding=FQRSC (McGill Digital Orchestra project)\\
 CIRMMT student awards: 2005-2006, 2006-2007|
|type=Master's thesis (M.A. in Music Technology)\\ Ph.D. thesis since 2007
|period=2005--Present.|
|status=Ongoing.|
|image=projects:tstick:tstick.jpg
|caption=The first T-Stick prototype.
|abstract=The T-Sticks are a family of digital musical instruments designed and built by [[people:Joseph Malloch]]. The first prototype (a tenor) was completed in 2006, a second (alto) T-Stick was completed in early 2007. The hardware is presently in its third revision and approximately twenty more T-Sticks have been built, including several prototypes integrating haptic feedback and additional sensing modalities.
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===== Project Description =====

The T-Sticks are a family of gestural musical controllers designed and built by [[people:Joseph Malloch]]. The first prototype (a tenor) was completed in 2006, a second (alto) T-Stick was completed in early 2007. The hardware is presently in its third revision and approximately twenty more T-Sticks have been built, including several prototypes integrating haptic feedback and additional sensing modalities.

The T-Stick grew out of a collaborative project undertaken by Joseph Malloch and composition student D. Andrew Stewart, partially funded by a [[http://www.cirmmt.mcgill.ca|CIRMMT]] student award, and also out of collaboration with performers as part of the [[http://www.music.mcgill.ca/musictech/DigitalOrchestra/|McGill Digital Orchestra project]]. The T-Stick has been performed and demonstrated many times internationally, including appearances in Canada, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and the USA.

The T-Stick can sense where and how much of it is touched, tapping, twisting, tilting, squeezing, and shaking. The output of the sensors is sent over USB to Max/MSP software, which processes the data and maps it to sound synthesis parameters.

The T-Stick is intended to be an "expert" musical interface: engaging to new users, allowing virtuosic playing, and "worth practicing" in that practice time results in increased skill.

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===== Media =====

[[http://vimeo.com/album/1912277|Click here for many more T-Stick videos!]]

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===== Publications =====

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===== Unpublished Resources =====

  * {{projects:tstick:proposal_malloch_stewart_2005.pdf|Original project proposal}}
  * {{projects:tstick:proposal_malloch_stewart_2006.pdf|Project report and renewal application}}
  * {{projects:tstick:tstick_presentation_2006.pdf|Presentation on the T-Stick}} (7.7MB)

{{tag>T-Stick Interface Multitouch DMI Sensors Video Performance Inertial_Sensing Capacitance Embedded}}