Marcelo Wanderley

Marcelo Wanderley

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McGill University

Music Technology Area, Department of Music Research, Schulich School of Music

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Digital musical instruments | Musical human-computer interaction | Electronic instrument design and evaluation | Music Technology | Motion capture
Marcelo M. Wanderley is Professor of Music Technology at McGill University, Canada. His research interests include the design and evaluation of digital musical instruments and the analysis of performer movements. He co-edited the electronic book “Trends in Gestural Control of Music” in 2000 (the first English-language reference in the area of musical interfaces), co-authored the textbook “New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard” in 2006 (the first textbook on the subject), and chaired the 2003 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2003). His work has helped shape several research directions in the field of NIME, with recent research* showing that he was the most cited author of the first two decades of the NIME conference. Prof. Wanderley is a member of the Computer Music Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board and a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.

* Source: Fasciani & Goode. 2021. "20 NIMEs: Twenty Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression", NIME 2021, p. 24 - http://nime2021.org/program/#/paper/6