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Past projects
These are finished projects that have either directly forwarded the Air Guitar research, run parallel to it, or extended the original research.
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Virtual Air Guitar (webcam) - at Heureka science centre |  |
June 2004 - March 2005
Goals: Creating a playable air guitar installation for a science centre exhibition, learnable by anyone in ten seconds.
Organization |
Project member |
Responsibilities |
Contact |
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Project lead |
tapio.takala AT tml.hut.fi |
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Platform development, user interface, VR interface |
teemu.maki-patola AT tml.hut.fi |
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Platform development, user interface, parameter mapping, webcam interface |
juha.laitinen AT tml.hut.fi |
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Musical intelligence module |
aki.kanerva AT iki.fi |
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Sound model |
matti.karjalainen AT hut.fi |
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Mustajuuri audio software |
tommi.ilmonen AT hut.fi |
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Construction, exhibition set-up and hosting |
Mikko Myllykoski, mikko.myllykoski AT heureka.fi |
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Parameter Mapping in Gesturally Controlled Musical Instruments | |
Summer 2004 - December 2005
Goals: Finding out usable mappings between input and output parameters in gesturally controlled virtual instruments by user-centred development; Juha Laitinen's Master's Thesis.
Organization |
Project member |
Responsibilities |
Contact |
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Master's Thesis overseer |
tapio.takala AT tml.hut.fi |
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Research, development |
juha.laitinen AT tml.hut.fi |
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Invisible Drum | |
June 2004 - March 2005
Goals: Creating a playable demonstration of the physical properties of a plate struck with a mallet, with editable physical properties.
Project member |
Responsibilities |
Contact |
Organization |
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Project lead |
tapio.takala AT tml.hut.fi |
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Platform development, user interface, VR interface |
teemu.maki-patola AT tml.hut.fi |
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Platform development, webcam interface |
juha.laitinen AT tml.hut.fi |
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Construction, exhibition set-up and hosting |
Mikko Myllykoski, mikko.myllykoski AT heureka.fi |
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Sound model |
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Virtual Air Guitar (control sticks) - at Heureka science centre | |
June 2004 - March 2005
Organization |
Project member |
Responsibilities |
Contact |
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Project lead, development |
matti.karjalainen AT hut.fi |
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Construction, exhibition set-up and hosting |
Mikko Myllykoski, mikko.myllykoski AT heureka.fi |
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ALMA | |
ALgorithms for the Modeling of Acoustic interactions
2001 - 2004
Goals: To develop an elegant, general and unifying strategy for a block-wise design of nonlinear physical and pseudo-physical models in sound synthesis.
Partner |
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Project lead, framework |
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Sound models, sound model technology |
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User interfaces |
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Sound models |
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Industry partner |