Publications
2019
Women Who Build Things: Gestural Controllers, Augmented Instruments, and Musical Mechatronics
S. Reid, A. Kapur, and S. Sithi-Amnuai
Where Is The Quiet: Immersive Experience Design Using the Brain, Mechatronics, and Machine Learning
M. J. Macionis and A. Kapur
in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2019, p. 335–338.
The Scale Navigator: A System for Networked Algorithmic Harmony
Turczan, N., Kapur, A., Ho, N., Honigman, C., & D. Shepherd,
In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference. Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2019
2018
FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR EVALUATION OF MEDIA-RICH COURSEWORK
Ajay Kapur, Perry Raymond Cook, Jordan Hochenbaum, Colin Bennett Honigman, Owen Skipper Vallis, Chad A Wagner, Eric Christopher Heep
Deceptive Sounds: Auditory Illusions & Artefacts in Sound Art
Blake Johnston, Michael Norris, Ajay Kapur, Jim Murphy
Redesigning Music Education Through Laptop Ensembles
Juan Pablo Yépez, Jordan Hochenbaum, Spencer Salazar, Ajay Kapur
Sansa: A Modified Sansula for Extended Compositional Techniques Using Machine Learning
M. J. Macionis and A. Kapur
in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 2018, p. 78–81.
2017
MetaFlute: A Wearable Interface for Gesture Detection
Diana Siwiak, Dale A Carnegie, Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur
A Closed-Loop Control System for Robotic Hi-hats
Jason Long, Jim W Murphy, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
The Machine Lab: A Modern Classroom to Teach Mechatronic Music
Nathan Villicaña-Shaw, Spencer Salazar, Ajay Kapur
Assessment techniques for new mechatronic instruments as applied to speaker. motion
BD Johnson, Ajay Kapur
Loudspeakers Optional: A history of non-loudspeaker-based electroacoustic music
Jason Long, Jim Murphy, Dale Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
2016
Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for Trumpet
S. Reid, R. Gaston, C. Honigman, and A. Kapur.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Brisbane, Jul. 2016
Using Expressive Musical Robots: Working with An Ensemble of New Mechatronic Instruments
Jim Murphy, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
Sound-based Brutalism: An emergent aesthetic
Mo H Zareei, Dugal Mckinnon, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
speaker. motion: A mechatronic loudspeaker system for live spatialisation
BD Johnson, A Kapur, M Norris
A New Framework for Interactive Control of Mechatronic Instruments
Blake Johnston, Bridget Johnson, Ajay Kapur
2015
Carme: A Multi-Touch Controller for Real Time Spatialisation of Gestural Behaviour
Blake Johnston, Michael Norris, Bridget Johnson, Ajay Kapur
A methodology for evaluating robotic striking mechanisms for musical contexts.
Timothy J Barraclough, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
Developing a physical gesture acquisition system for guqin performance.
Jingyin He, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Noise square: Physical sonification of cellular automata through mechatronic sound-sculpture
Mo H Zareei, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
Musical instrument design process for mobile technology.
Timothy J Barraclough, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
The Future of Online Arts and Creative Education
A. Kapur, P. Cook, J. Hochenbaum, O. Vallis, and S. Reid,
Exploring Science in the Studio, AICAD Symposium, Nov 2015.
Rasping Music: Remodeling Early Minimalist Music through Mechatronic Sound-Sculpture.
Mo H Zareei, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Perspectives on Time: performance practice, mapping strategies, & composition with MIGSI
Sarah Reid, Ryan Gaston, Ajay Kapur
A comparative evaluation of percussion mechanisms for musical robotics applications
Jason Long, Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale Anthony Carnegie
Expressive robotic guitars: Developments in musical robotics for chordophones
Jim Murphy, James McVay, Paul Mathews, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
2014
Programming for musicians and digital artists: Creating music with ChucK
Ajay Kapur, Perry R Cook, Spencer Salazar, Ge Wang
Contemporary Practices of Extending Traditional Asian Instruments Using Technology
Jingyin He, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Interactive Sound Synthesis Mediated Through Computer Networks
J He, K Christopher, A Kapur, DA Carnegie
Toward Ambient Intelligent Systems for Improving Levels of Creativity in Arts Learning Environments.
Kameron R Christopher, Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
Little drummer bot: Building, testing, and interfacing with a new expressive mechatronic drum system
Jim Murphy, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur
Student retention in a mechatronics programme in first and second years: Motivating engineers to learn through music and creativity
DA Carnegie, A Kapur, G Gouws, C Watterson
Mutor: Drone chorus of metrically muted motors
Mo H Zareei, Dale A Carnegie, Ajay Kapur, Dugal McKinnon
Multimedia educational content delivery with identity authentication and related compensation model
Perry Raymond Cook, Ajay Kapur, Owen S Vallis, Jordan N Hochenbaum
Tactile. motion: An iPad based performance interface for increased expressivity in diffusion performance
BD Johnson, Michael Norris, Ajay Kapur
User Identity Authentication Techniques for On-Line Content or Access
Perry R Cook, Ajay Kapur, Owen S Vallis, Jordan Hochenbaum
Better Drumming Through Calibration: Techniques for Pre-Performance Robotic Percussion Optimization.
Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Musical robotics in a loudspeaker world: Developments in alternative approaches to localization and spatialization
Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Mechbass: A systems overview of a new four-stringed robotic bass guitar
James McVay, Dale A Carnegie, Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur
Robot: Tune Yourself! Automatic Tuning for Musical Robotics
Jim W Murphy, Paul Mathews, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Diffusing diffusion: A history of the technological advances in spatial performance
Bridget Johnson, Michael Norris, Ajay Kapur
Tangle: a Flexible Framework for Performance with Advanced Robotic Musical Instruments
Paul Mathews, Ness Morris, Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Techniques in Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing: An Open Source Approach
Colin Honigman, Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
A History of Emerging Paradigms in EEG for Music
Kameron R Christopher, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie, Gina M Grimshaw
Complex: Physical Re-sonification of Urban Noise
Mo H Zareei, Dugal McKinnon, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Creative Coding: A Unique Pedagogical Model for Teaching Computer Science to Artists
Ajay Kapur, Perry Cook, Michael Bryant, Jennifer Hutton
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY'S INFLUENCE ON FLUTE PEDAGOGY: A SURVEY OF THEIR INTERSECTION
Diana Siwiak, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Polus: The Design and Development of a New, Mechanically Bowed String Instrument Ensemble.
Blake Johnston, Henry Dengate Thrush, Ajay Kapur, Jim W Murphy, Tane Moleta
Mechatronic Keyboard Music: Design, Evaluation, and Use of a New Mechatronic Harmonium
Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
New Open-Source Interfaces for Group Based Participatory Performance of Live Electronic Music.
Timothy J Barraclough, Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur
2013
Noise on the grid: Rhythmic pulse in experimental and electronic noise music
Mo H Zareei, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Self Organizing Maps (SOMS) for Organizing, Categorizing, Browsing and/or Grading Large Collections of Assignments for Massive Online Education Systems
Jordan N Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur, Owen S Vallis, Perry R Cook, Colin Honigman, Chad Wagner
Locative sonification: Playing the world through citygram
Tae Hong Park, Johnathan Turner, Christopher Jacoby, Alex Marse, Michael Musick, Ajay Kapur, Jingyin He
Designing and Building Expressive Robotic Guitars
Jim W Murphy, James McVay, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Toward The Future Practice Room: Empowering Musical Pedagogy through Hyperinstruments
Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
Swivel 2: A systems overview and evaluation of a new mechatronic slide guitar
Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Netpixl: Towards a New Paradigm for Networked Application Development
Dimitri Diakopoulos, Ajay Kapur
Interactive Sound Synthesis Mediated through Computer Networks
Kameron R Christopher, Jingyin He, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Multi-Touch Interfaces for Phantom Source Positioning in Live Sound Diffusion
Bridget Johnson, Ajay Kapur
Swivel: Analysis and systems overview of a new robotic guitar
Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie
Implementing 3D visualizations of EEG signals in artistic applications
Kameron R Christopher, Ajay Kapur, Dale A Carnegie, Gina M Grimshaw
2012
Building on the Foundations of Network Music: Exploring interaction contexts and shared robotic instruments
Owen Vallis, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
A Comparative User Study of Two Methods of Control on a Multi-Touch Surface for Musical Expression.
Blake Johnston, Owen Vallis, Ajay Kapur
Interacting with solenoid drummers: A quantitative approach to composing and performing with open-loop solenoidbased robotic percussion systems
Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Dale Carnegie
Nuance: A software tool for capturing synchronous data streams from multimodal musical systems
Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
Drum Stroke Computing: Multimodal Signal Processing for Drum Stroke Identification and Performance Metrics.
Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
Don’t Forget the Machines: Orchestra of Humans, Laptops, and Robots
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, Raahki Kapur
Kritaanjali: A Robotic Harmonium for Performance, Pedogogy and Research.
Ajay Kapur, Jim W Murphy, Dale A Carnegie
2011
Adding Z-Depth and Pressure Expressivity to Tangible Tabletop Surfaces.
Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
The chronome: A case study in designing new continuously expressive musical instruments
Owen Vallis, Jordan Hochenbaum, Jim Murphy, Ajay Kapur
Training surrogate sensors in musical gesture acquisition systems
Adam Tindale, Ajay Kapur, George Tzanetakis
The KarmetiK NotomotoN: A New Breed of Musical Robot for Teaching and Performance.
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, Jim W Murphy, Jordan Hochenbaum, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Trimpin
A comparison of pick-based strategies for robotic bass playing
Richard Vindriis, Ajay Kapur, Dale Carnegie
The machine orchestra: An ensemble of human laptop performers and robotic musical instruments
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Jim W Murphy, Jordan Hochenbaum, Owen Vallis, Curtis Bahn
Community-based design: The democratization of musical interface construction
Owen Vallis, Ajay Kapur
HIDUINO: A firmware for building driverless USB-MIDI devices using the Arduino microcontroller.
Dimitri Diakopoulos, Ajay Kapur
2010
The Machine Orchestra
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, Meason Wiley, Owen Vallis, Jordan Hochenbaum, Jim W Murphy, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Carl Burgin, Tyler Yamin
Argos: An Open Source Application For Building Multi-Touch Musical Interfaces.
Dimitri Diakopoulos, Ajay Kapur
The Helio: A Study of Membrane Potentiometers and Long Force Sensing Resistors for Musical Interfaces.
Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur, Carl Burgin
Designing Expressive Musical Interfaces for Tabletop Surfaces.
Jordan Hochenbaum, Owen Vallis, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur
A Shift Towards Iterative and Open-Source Design for Musical Interfaces.
Owen Vallis, Jordan Hochenbaum, Ajay Kapur
2009
Collaborative composition for musical robots
Ajay Kapur, Arne Eigenfeldt, Curtis Bahn, W Andrew Schloss
Multi-Laser Gestural Interface-Solutions for Cost-Effective and Open Source Controllers.
Meason Wiley, Ajay Kapur
21st Century Electronica: MIR Techniques for Classification and Performance.
Dimitri Diakopoulos, Owen Vallis, Jordan Hochenbaum, Jim W Murphy, Ajay Kapur
2007
A Comparison of Solenoid-Based Strategies for robotic drumming.
Ajay Kapur, Eric Trimpin, Afzal Singer, George Suleman, George Tzanetakis
A Comparative Study on Wearable Sensors for Signal Processing on the North Indian Tabla
Manjinder S Benning, Ajay Kapur, Bernie Till, George Tzanetakis, Peter Driessen
Integrating hyperinstruments, musical robots & machine musicianship for North Indian classical music
Ajay Kapur, Eric Singer, Manjinder S Benning, George Tzanetakis
Multimodal Sensor Analysis of Sitar Performance: Where is the Beat?
Manjinder Singh Benning, Ajay Kapur, Bernie C Till, George Tzanetakis
Pedagogical Transcription for Multimodal Sitar Performance.
Ajay Kapur, Graham Percival, Mathieu Lagrange, George Tzanetakis
2006
Learning indirect acquisition of instrumental gestures using direct sensors
George Tzanetakis, Ajay Kapur, Adam R Tindale
Towards the One-Man Indian Computer Music Performance System.
Ajay Kapur, George Tzanetakis, W Andrew Schloss, Peter F Driessen, Eric Singer
The KiOm: A Paradigm for Collaborative Controller Design.
Ajay Kapur, Adam R Tindale, Manjinder Singh Benning, Peter F Driessen
2005
New Music Interfaces for Rhythm-Based Retrieval.
Ajay Kapur, Richard I McWalter, George Tzanetakis
Interactive Network Performance: a dream worth dreaming? Organised Sound
Ajay Kapur, Ge Wang, Philip Davidson, Perry R Cook
Yeah, ChucK it!⇒ dynamic, controllable interface mapping
Ge Wang, Ananya Misra, Ajay Kapur, Perry R Cook
Studio Report: University of Victoria Music Intelligence and sound Technology Interdisciplinary Centre (MiSTIC).
Peter F Driessen, W Andrew Schloss, George Tzanetakis, Kirk McNally, Ajay Kapur
Gesture-based affective computing on motion capture data
Asha Kapur, Ajay Kapur, Naznin Virji-Babul, George Tzanetakis, Peter F Driessen
Wearable sensors for real-time musical signal processing
Ajay Kapur, Eric L Yang, Adam R Tindale, Peter F Driessen
Subband-based drum transcription for audio signals
George Tzanetakis, Ajay Kapur, Richard I McWalter
A framework for sonification of vicon motion capture data
Ajay Kapur, George Tzanetakis, Naznin Virji-Babul, Ge Wang, Perry R Cook
Indirect acquisition of percussion gestures using timbre recognition
Adam R Tindale, Ajay Kapur, W Andrew Schloss, George Tzanetakis
A comparison of sensor strategies for capturing percussive gestures
Adam R Tindale, Ajay Kapur, George Tzanetakis, Peter Driessen, Andrew Schloss
2004
The electronic sitar controller
Ajay Kapur, Ariel J Lazier, Philip Davidson, R Scott Wilson, Perry R Cook
Retrieval of percussion gestures using timbre classification techniques.
Adam R Tindale, Ajay Kapur, George Tzanetakis, Ichiro Fujinaga
Audio-based gesture extraction on the esitar controller
Ajay Kapur, George Tzanetakis, Peter F Driessen
Preservation and extension of traditional techniques: digitizing north indian performance
Ajay Kapur, Philip Davidson, Perry R Cook, W Andrew Schloss, Peter F Driessen