My main research areas include Sound and Music Computing, Digital Instrument Design, Human-Computer Interfaces. I’m an integrated researcher at the TECHN&ART Technology, Restoration and Arts Enhancement Center.
Main research projects:
TRADIGITAL (ongoing)
The project TRADIGITAL is based on the intention of combining the cultural heritage of the sound and characteristics of instruments of traditional origin with new technologies for creating new interfaces for musical expression and new digital instruments. The aim of this project is to develop two prototypes of digital instruments inspired by traditional instruments, contributing to the development of new means of musical expression enhanced by recent technologies in physical computing, musical and sound computing, as well as new approaches and strategies for human-computer interfaces and automatic music generation. This project will also contribute to the study and characterisation of traditional instruments, through a scientific approach to the analysis of the acoustic and organological properties of the instruments studied.
http://www.techneart.ipt.pt/tecnart/projeto.php?projeto=51
SliiV
With artistic and experimental purposes, this artefact explores the performative, sensorial/tactile characteristics of fashion, to which it adds the development of a musical interface integrated into the fabric of a garment. These wearable garments have incorporated an interface that allows music
creation through touch in some areas of the garment.
Sliiv – prototype design for a wearable musical interface
Interfacing Jazz (PhD dissertation, 2017)
Within this project, several generative music algorithms and interfaces for musical creation and performance were developed. My main contribution was on GimmeDaBlues, an iOS app focusing on Jazz and Blues, that allows the user to play a jazz quartet, with or without any musical experience.
My dissertation can be found here.
See a list of my research papers and presentations;
Descriptions and sound examples of the work developed for my doctoral dissertation are divided across these pages:
- Interfacing Jazz: core concepts and algorithms of my PhD dissertation;
- GimmeDaBlues: iOS app;
- MyJazzBand: an interactive installation for multi-touch screen;
- algorithmic jazz: some resources regarding the algorithmic computation of jazz music.
- b.blocks library – prototyping of interactive multimedia systems for Max/MSP;
b.blocks library (MA project)
Max Building Blocks (b.blocks) is a library of objects for the Max programming environment, dedicated to the prototyping of interactive multimedia systems.
email: ruidias74@gmail.com