Papers
	NIME 02 New Interfacefor Musical Expression Dublin, Ireland 24-26 May 2002 ©2002 2.9 mb Audiopad: A Tag-based Interface for Musical Performance James Patten, Ben Recht*, and Hiroshi Ishii Tangible Media Group *Physics and Media Group MIT Media Laboratory {patten, brecht, ishii}@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT This paper presents Audiopad,an interface for musical performance that aims to combine the modularity of knob based control- lers with the expressive character of multidimensional track- ing interfaces.The performer ’s manipulations of physical pucks on a tabletop control a real-time synthesis process. The pucks are embedded with LC tags that the system tracks in two dimensions with a series of specially shaped antennae. The system projects graphical information on and around the pucks to give the performer sophisticated control over the synthesis process.