Engineering:Jammer keyboard
A Jammer keyboard is a musical instrument characterized by at least one isomorphic keyboard and thumb-operated and/or motion-sensing expressive controls. The instrument is designed to be easy to learn and to enable the exploration of dynamic tonality.[citation needed]
Description
Research suggests that Jammers may enable more expressive potential than other polyphonic musical instruments such as the piano, guitar, and accordion.[1] Isomorphic keyboards similar to those used in a Jammer have been shown to accelerate the rate at which students grasp otherwise-abstract concepts in music theory.[2][3]
Inventor Jim Plamondon founded the company Thumtronics in 2003 and first developed a prototype instrument called the Thummer.[4] Plamondon then developed the Jammer, which uses the Wicki/Hayden note layout.[5]
References
- ↑ Paine, G.; Stevenson, I.; Pearce, A. (2007). "The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07): 70–77. http://www.activatedspace.com/Papers/PaineThuMP.pdf.
- ↑ Holland, S. (1993). "Learning about harmony with Harmony Space: An overview". Proceedings of the 1993 World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education on Music Education (AI-ED 93): 24–40. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/files/papers/stanm88.pdf.
- ↑ Bergstrom, T.; Karahalios, K.; Hart, J. C. (2007). Isochords: visualizing structure in music. 297. doi:10.1145/1268517.1268565. ISBN 9781568813370. http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/papers/pdfs/bergstrom-isochords-2007.pdf.
- ↑ "The Thummer: A Musican Instrument for the 21st Century?". https://www.wired.com/2007/01/the-thummer-a-m/.
- ↑ Milne, Andrew; Sethares, W.A.; Plamondon, J. (March 2008). "Tuning Continua and Keyboard Layouts". Journal of Mathematics and Music 2 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1080/17459730701828677.
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