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  1. Essl, G. “Tinkering with Noise: Wie man neue Musikinstrumente technisch möglich macht” In Workshop-Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Humans and Computers, Lübeck, Germany, September 2008. Invited Keynote Presentation and paper.
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  2. Wang, G., Essl. G., Penttinen, H., “Do Mobile Phones Dream of Electric Orchestras?,” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Belfast, 2008.
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  3. Rohs, M, Essl, G. “Sensing-Based Interaction for Information Navigation on Handheld Displays,” Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 450385, 11 pages.
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  4. Ananya Misra, Georg Essl, Michael Rohs "Microphone as Sensor in Mobile Phone Performance" In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2008), Genova, Italy, June 5-7, 2008
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  5. Essl., G., Wang, G., Rohs, M. “Developments and Challenges turning Mobile Phones into Generic Music Performance Platforms,” In Proceedings of the Mobile Music Workshop, Vienna, 2008.
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  6. Rohs, M., Schöning, J, Raubal, M., Essl, G., Krüger, A. “Map Navigation with Mobile Devices: Virtual versus Physical Movement with and without Visual Context,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI), Nagoya, 2007.
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  7. Essl. G. “Iterated Fundamental Solution Simulations of Sections of Circular Membranes,” to appear in Proceedings of the International Symposium for Musical Acoustics (ISMA), Barcelona, 2007.
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  8. Michael Rohs, Georg Essl "Sensing-based Interaction for Information Navigation on Handheld Displays" In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), Singapore, September 9-12, 2007. Excellent Paper Award (Silver Medal).
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  9. Essl, G., Rohs, M. "ShaMus - A Sensor-Based Integrated Mobile Phone Instrument" to appear in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Copenhagen, 2007.
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  10. Rohs, M., Essl, G. "CaMus2 - Collaborative Music Performance with Mobile Camera Phones" Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), Salzburg, Austria, June 13-15, 2007.
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  11. Rohs, M., Essl, G. "CaMus2 - Optical Flow and Collaboration in Camera Phone Music Performance" In roceedings of the Seventh International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), New York, USA, June 6-10, 2007.
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  12. Essl, G., Rohs, M. "The Design Space of Sensing-Based Interaction for Mobile Music Performance" Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 13, 2007.
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  13. Essl, G. "Circle maps as a simple oscillators for complex behavior: II. Experiments" In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Montreal, September 18-20, 2006.
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  14. Essl, G., Rohs, M. "Mobile STK for Symbian OS" In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New Orleans, November, 2006.
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  15. Essl, G. "Circle maps as a simple oscillators for complex behavior: I. Basics" In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New Orleans, November, 2006.
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  16. Rohs, M., Essl. G. "Which One is Better? Information Navigation Techniques for Spatially Aware Handheld Displays" In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Banff, Canada, November, 2006.
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  17. Rohs, M., Essl, G., Roth, M. "CaMus: Live Music Performance using Camera Phones and Visual Grid Tracking" in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME), pp. 31-36, Paris, France, June, 2006.
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  18. Essl, G., "Computation of Wavefronts on a Disk I: Numerical Experiments," Post-conference publication, "Third Irish Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science and Information Technology, Dublin, Ireland, July 22-23, 2004." Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 161, 25-41, 2006.
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  19. Essl, G. , O'Modhrain, S., "An Enactive Approach to the Design of New Tangible Musical Instruments", Organised Sound 11:3 285-296, 2006.
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  20. Essl, G. "Mathematical Structure and Sound Synthesis", Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing 2005, Salerno, Italy, Nov. 24-26 2005.
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  21. Essl, G., Magnusson, C., Eriksson, J., O'Modhrain, S. "Towards evaluation of performance, control of preference in physical and virtual sensorimotor integration" In Proceedings of ENACTIVE 2005, the 2nd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Genoa, Italy, November 17-18, 2005.
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  22. Essl, G. “Aspects of the Topology of Interactions on Loop Dynamics in One and Two Dimensions,” LNCS 3310 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2004, Esbjerg, Denmark, Springer Verlag, 220-231, 2005.
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  23. Essl, G., “"Whispering" waves and Bate's ridges in numerical experiments” Acoustics Research Letters Online 6:3, 227-231, 2005.
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  24. Essl, G., “Towards the Synthesis of Wavefront Evolution in 2-D” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Barcelona, September 5-9, 2005.
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  25. Essl, G. “The Computational Structure of Waves on Drums for Sound Synthesis,” In Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 29-Sept. 2. 2005
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  26. Essl. G., O’Modhrain, S., “Scrubber: An Interface for Friction-induced Sounds,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-28, 70-75, 2005.
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  27. Essl, G., “Trapping and Steering on Lattice Strings: Virtual Slow Waves, Directional and Non-propagating Excitations,” Physical Review E, 69, 066601-1-6, 2004.
  28. Essl, G., Serafin, S., Cook, P. R., Smith, J. O., “Theory of Banded Waveguides,” Computer Music Journal, 28:1, 37-50, 2004.
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  29. Essl, G., Serafin, S., Cook, P. R., Smith, J. O., “Musical Applications of Banded Waveguides,” Computer Music Journal, 28:1, 51-63, 2004.
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  30. O’Modhrain, S. and Essl, G., “PebbleBox and CrumbleBag: Tactile Interfaces for Granular Synthesis,” in the Proceedings of the Conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Hamamatsu, Japan, 74-79, 2004.
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  31. Essl, G., “From Mathematical Concepts to Hands-on Interaction: Physical Modeling and Interaction Paradigms of Tablas and Singing Bowls” Invited paper, In the Proceedings of Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music, Annamalai, India, 6-8, January, 2004.
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  32. Kapur, A., Essl, G., Davidson, P., Cook, P. R., “The Electronic Tabla Controller,” Journal of New Music Research 32:4, 351-360, 2003.
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  33. Essl, G. “On Gender in New Music Interface Technology,” Organised Sound, 8:1, 19-30, 2003.
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  34. Essl, G., Cook, P. R., “The principle of closed wavetrains, resonance and efficiency: past, present and future,” In the Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC-03), Stockholm, Sweden, 6-10 September, 385-388, 2003.
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  35. Young, D., Essl, G., “HyperPuja: A Tibetan Singing Bowl Controller,” In the Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-03), Montreal, Canada, 22-24 May, 9-14, 2003.
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  36. Essl, G., “The Displaced Bow and APhISMs: Abstract Physically Informed Synthesis Methods for Composition and Interactive Performance,” in Florida Electroacoustic Music Studio Library (Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival 2003), Gainesville, Florida, 3-5 April, 2003.
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  37. Tzanetakis, G., Essl, G., Cook, P. R., “Human Perception and Computer Extraction of Musical Beat Strength,” in Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-02), Hamburg, Germany, 26-28 September, 257-261, 2002.
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  38. Essl, G., Cook, P. R., “Banded Waveguides on Circular Topologies and of Beating Modes: Tibetan Singing Bowls and Glass Harmonicas,” in Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-02), Göteborg, Sweden, 16-21 September, 49-52, 2002.
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  39. Kapur, A., Essl, G., Davidson, P., Cook, P.R., "The Electronic Tabla Controller," in Proc. 2002 Conference on New Iinstruments for Musical Expression (NIME-2002), Dublin, Ireland, 24-26 May, 2002.
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  40. Essl, G., “Physical Wave Propagation Modeling for Real-Time Synthesis of Natural Sounds,” Ph.D. thesis, Computer Science Department, Princeton University, 2002.
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  41. Tzanetakis, G., Essl, G., Cook, P.R., “Audio Analysis using the Discrete Wavelet Transform,” In Proc. WSES Int. Conf. Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications (AMTA 2001) Skiathos, Greece, 2001. Reprinted in ``Mathematics and Simulation with Biological, Economical and Musicoacoustical Applications'', WSES Press, 318-323, 2001.
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  42. Tzanetakis, G., Essl, G., Cook, P.R., “Automatic Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals,” In Proc. Int. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001.
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  43. O'Brien, J.F., Cook, P.R., Essl, G., “Synthesizing Sound from Physically Based Motion,” In Proc. SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, August, 529-536, 2001.
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  44. Essl, G., Cook, P.R., “Measurements and efficient simulations of bowed bars,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108:1, 379-388, 2000.
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  45. Li, K., et al, “Early Experiences and Challenges in Building and Using A Scalable Display Wall System,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 29-37, July/August, 2000.
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  46. Essl, G., Cook, P.R., “Banded Waveguides: Towards Physical Modeling of Bar Percussion Instruments,” In Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf. (ICMC), Beijing, 22-28 October, 321-324, 1999.
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  47. Cook, P.R., Essl, G., Tzanetakis, G., Trueman D., “N >> 2: Multi-speaker Display Systems for Virtual Reality and Spatial Audio Projection,” In Proc. Int. Conf. Auditory Display (ICAD), Glasgow, 1-4 November, 1998.
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  48. Essl, G., “Possibilities for a Hyper-G-WWW-gateway,” Master's thesis, Graz University of Technology, 1996.
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drafts/manuscripts/other stuff
  1. Essl, G., "Book Review of 'Computational Line Geometry' by H. Pottmann, J. Wallner" SIGACT News 36:3, 13-17, 2005.
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  2. Essl, G. "Strange Excitations" Workshop on Sound in Interactive Media, Copenhagen, May 12-13 2005 (abstract only).
  3. Essl, G., Serafin, S., Cook, P. R., Smith, J. O., "2. Sound Examples to Accompany the Article, ''Musical Applications of Banded Waveguides'' by Georg Essl, Stefania Serafin, Perry R. Cook, and Julius O. Smith (Volume 28, Number 1)," Computer Music Journal, Sound and Video Anthology DVD, Volume 28, 2004.
  4. O'Modhrain, S., Essl, G., "Enaction in the Context of Musical Performance," paper, Enactive Virtual Workshop, November 11, 2004.
  5. O'Brien, J. F., Cook, P. R., Essl G., "Synthesizing Sounds from Physically Based Motion." (computer generated animation), The visual proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, August 11-17. In the ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 Animation Theater.
  6. Essl, G., "Velocity excitations and impulse responses of strings - Aspects of continuous and discrete models," manuscript.
  7. Essl, G., "Elementary Integration Methods for Velocity Excitations in Displacement Digital Waveguides," manuscript.

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