Thesis in Music Technology
My thesis for the Music Technology program at McGill has been accepted and passed. It is entitled Development and Implementation of a Vibrotactile Click Track to Assist Contemporary Music Conducting. It outlines the multidisciplinary research I undertook as a graduate student … Continue reading Thesis in Music Technology
EMF Hapkit and EMF Sandbox
As part of the Student Innovation Challenge for the World Haptics 2017 conference, myself and two others built two devices to help teach students about electromagnetics. The EMF Hapkit helps to teach force-distance relationships, and the EMF Sandbox helps to … Continue reading EMF Hapkit and EMF Sandbox
Visuals, Sounds and Haptics
I’ll be discussing my research in using haptics to cue musicians during the Visuals, Sounds and Haptics Workshop at the IX Symposium being hosted at Société des arts technologiques (SAT) in Montreal, QC. More information here: IX Symposium Check it out if you can! … Continue reading Visuals, Sounds and Haptics
Vibrotactile Metronome
The research paper in which I am primary author, entitled “Development of a Vibrotactile Metronome to Assist in Conducting Contemporary Classical Music”, was accepted to be presented at the 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017). The conference … Continue reading Vibrotactile Metronome
Cepstrum Analysis
Chapter 1 Introduction Cepstrum is a term coined by Bogert, Healy, and Tukey from observations of signals containing echoes and unique properties of the logarithm of its power spectrum [1]. This term, which consists of reversing the letters spec- in the … Continue reading Cepstrum Analysis
Linear Prediction Coding
Chapter 1 Introduction Linear predictive coding (LPC) is a tool used in digital signal processing that can estimate a signal x[n] based on its past samples [1]. As well, it can be used to estimate the spectral envelope of a given … Continue reading Linear Prediction Coding
The Batons
A new form of gestural controller, called ”The Batons” was designed as part of the project for the courses MUMT 619: Input Devices for Musical Expression and MUMT 620: Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis. The Batons are two wireless electronic … Continue reading The Batons
Computational Model of Moog VCF
A page for the final project write-up for the course MUMT 618 – Computational Modeling of Musical Acoustics. Introduction Virtual analog synthesis uses physical models and algorithms to recreate sounds generated by analog circuitry. Virtual analog runs the gamut of … Continue reading Computational Model of Moog VCF
MIDI Drum Kit
The following page is the write-up for the Final Project of MUMT 306 – Music and Audio Computing I, for which the MIDI Drum Kit was designed. Objectives This project aims to develop a prototype electronic drum kit using sensors, … Continue reading MIDI Drum Kit
Patrick Ignoto 