Working Syllabus (currently assuming 13 long lectures once per week)

• Lecture 1: Introduction and basic concepts/philosophy behind musical controllers
• Lecture 2: Keyboards and their relatives
  readings:
  • Cadoz, C., Lisowski, L. & Florens, J-L. (1990). A modular feedback keyboard design. Computer Music Journal, 14 (2), 47-51.
  • Carlos, Wendy. (1987). "Tuning: At the Crossroads". Computer Music Journal, 11(1): 29-43.
  • Moog, R. A., and T. L. Rhea (1990). "Evolution of the Keyboard Interface: the Bösendorfer 290 SE Recording Piano and the Moog Multiply-Touch-Sensitive Keyboards." Computer Music Journal 14 [2]: 52-60.
  • Keislar, D. (1987). "History and Principles of Microtonal Keyboards," Computer Music Journal, 11(1): 18-28.
  links:
  • John Allen's articles on keyboard design
  • Notation for microtonal scales
  • the continuum fingerboard
  • Jacob Duringer's Monolith
  • Raymond Scott
  • The Sal-Mar Construction
  • Manfred Clynes - creator of the SentoGraph
  • the Lambdoma harmonic keyboard
• Lecture 3: Percussion Interfaces
• Lecture 4: Guitar and String Interfaces
• Lecture 5: Interfaces for wind instruments and voice
• Lecture 6: Batons and tracking controllers
• Lectures 7 & 8: Free gesture controllers
• Lecture 9: Wearable Interfaces
• Lecture 10: Tactile Interfaces, Contact Surfaces, HCI input devices, and other techniques
• Lecture 11: Mapping Techniques
• Lecture 12: Current Topics
• Lecture 13: Student Presentations