Expanding and Embedding a High-Level Gesture Vocabulary for Digital and Augmented Musical Instruments

This paper reports ongoing initiatives to explore how digital and augmented musical instruments gestural vocabulary is developed over time, and how embedding the high-level gesture descriptors in those instruments can fomenting their use and contribute to their maturity toward established music instruments. The instruments included in this research are the T-Stick (Digital Musical Instrument), and the GuitarAMI (Augmented Music Instrument). Finally, we discuss present and future strategies for instrument longevity for the presented instruments.