Small Musically Expressive Laptop Toolkit Rebecca Fiebrink and Ge Wang And now smeltier with code by Dan Trueman! SMELT is an open-source toolkit to facilitate rapid development of and experimentation with expressive musical interfaces built on the laptop's native physical input capabilities (e.g., keyboard, mouse, motion sensing, microphone). It's implemented in C and ChucK, and based much on our work with PLOrk. To further articulate our vision, Perry has composed the following haiku: i go for haptics.if you heard it, i SMELT it. seeing is good too. Read NIME 2007 paper (pdf) ("Don't Forget the Laptop: Using Native Input Capabilities for Expressive Musical Control") Download smelt 1.0 (zip) | wallpaper (thanks to Matt Howard for the background image) Get ChucK! (free! cross-platform! money-back guarantee!) Also see Smirk: The Small Music Information Retrieval Toolkit: Classification framework for chuck Browse (some examples require chuck-1.2.0.8 release)
SMELT is brought to you by Rebecca and Ge, with Matt Hoffman, Spencer Salazar, and Perry Cook. plork | chuck | soundlab | cs | music |