Marcelo Mortensen Wanderley

Department of Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

Research Interests

Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis, Computer Music, Input Device Design and Evaluation, Sensors and Data Acquisition

Selected Publications

Eduardo R. Miranda and Marcelo M. Wanderley. New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction beyond the Keyboard, A-R Editions, Spring 2006. ISBN 0-89579-585-X

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Bradley Vines. “Ancillary Gestures of Clarinettists”. In A. Gritten and E. King, eds. Music and Gesture, Ashgate Publishing, 2006.

Marcelo M. Wandelrey and Philippe Depalle. 2004. "Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis". Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, No. 4 (April), Special Issue on Engineering and Music - Supervisory Control and Auditory Communication, G. Johannsen, Ed., pp. 632-644

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Nicola Orio. 2002. "Evaluation of Input Devices for Musical Expression: Borrowing Tools from HCI". Computer Music Journal, vol. 26, number 3, pp. 62-76.

Marcelo M. Wanderley and Marc Battier, editors. 2000. Trends in Gestural Control of Music. Paris, Fr: IRCAM - Centre Georges Pompidou.

Short CV

Marcelo M. Wanderley was born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1965. He holds a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, an M.Eng. degree in integrated analog circuit design from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie—Paris VI, Paris, France, on acoustics, signal processing, and computer science applied to music. His main research interests include gestural control of sound synthesis, input device design and evaluation, sensor design and data acquisition, and human–computer interaction. He has published several book chapters and papers in various areas related to new interfaces for musical expression and is the coeditor, with Prof. M. Battier, of the electronic publication Trends in Gestural Control of Music. In 2003 Dr. Wanderley was the Chair of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME03). In 2006, he co-authored (with Eduardo R. Miranda) the textbook “New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard”, A-R Editions, the first comprehensive reference on this area. He is currently Associate Professor in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.