The digital baton: a versatile performance instrument
Teresa Marrin, Joseph A. Paradiso · International Computer Music Conference · 1997
The Digital Baton is a new electronic instrument which has been designed and built for the performance of computer music. The principle motivation for its design was to create a gestural controller which replicated as closely as possible the feel of a traditional conducting baton while retaining the maximum number of intuitive control parameters for the user. The Digital Baton contains several sensor systems which capture many of the modalities of hand motion and gesture for their application toward both discrete controls and continuous, expressive gestures. Current software for the Digital Baton makes use of its sensing functions in real-time music performance systems.