Using music performance software with flexible control interfaces for live performance by severely disabled musicians
T. Anderson · Proceedings 25th EUROMICRO Conference. Informatics: Theory and Practice for the New Millennium · 1999
This paper first discusses the principles of music performance software which can map performer actions to musical output in a flexible manner. The use of the MIDIGrid and E-Scape software is described, with particular regard to work done by the Drake Music Project in facilitating music making by severely disabled performers using E-Scape. This enables musical material to be performed by a wide variety of movements, using such devices as trackball, ultrasonic beam and switches as a musical performance interface. The ideas of 'conducting' and 'scrolling' as modes of processing performer input to play prepared musical material are examined, and extended features provided by E-Scape are presented, together with musical examples.