Composing an Ensemble Standstill Work for Myo and Bela
This work provides a portable and extensible framework for standstill performances for artists and researchers interested in gesture and muscle tension as control inputs, representing an incremental advancement in interactive music systems.
This paper details the creation of a portable standstill performance piece utilizing the Myo gesture control armband and the Bela embedded computing platform. The system integrates muscle tension as a control parameter and provides software bridges (Myo-to-Bela and Myo-to-OSC) to aid in composition prototyping.
This paper describes the process of developing a standstill performance work using the Myo gesture control armband and the Bela embedded computing platform. The combination of Myo and Bela allows a portable and extensible version of the standstill performance concept while introducing muscle tension as an additional control parameter. We describe the technical details of our setup and introduce Myo-to-Bela and Myo-to-OSC software bridges that assist with prototyping compositions using the Myo controller.