Butch Rovan: Teaching at Brown University, 2004-2011
MU2220: Designing and Playing Alternate Controllers
This seminar explores the science and aesthetics of designing alternate controllers for musical performance. Topics include basic analog and digital electronics, hardware prototyping, instrument construction, and C programming of microcontrollers. Additional assignments address theories of gesture, human-computer interface issues, and the challenges of mapping sensor data to meaningful musical parameters.
New instrument design by Matthew Warne
New instrument design by Arvid Tomayko-Peters and Brian Knoth
New instrument design by Kevin Patton
Two student Instruments (left = Alex Kruckman, right = Alex Dupuis)
Left: Bevin Kelley's Bracer instrument. Right: Lucky Leone's interactive chair.
Left: instrument by Carmen Montoya. Right: "Firefly" instrument by Jordan Bartee.
