Bert Schiettecatte

Bert Schiettecatte (born January 1, 1979) is a Belgian entrepreneur who created the Audiocubes.

Biography

Bert Schiettecatte was born in Ghent, Belgium. He has an electronic music production background . He holds an MSc in computer science from the University of Brussels (VUB) and an MA/MST of Arts in Music, Science and Technology from CCRMA, a department at Stanford University (BAEF grant).

While studying at CCRMA, Bert Schiettecatte developed a strong interest in hardware engineering, electronics, and human-computer interaction. Together with Eto Otitigbe and Luigi Castelli, Bert Schiettecatte created a customized dance pad[1] and a laser harp[2] (such as the one of Jean-Michel Jarre), at CCRMA.

After taking several research positions, Bert founded his company Percussa in 2004 to develop tangible user interface technology for music making. Percussa's first product, Audiocubes, was launched in January 2007.[3]

Awards

Publications
  • Schiettecatte, B. (April 2004). "Interaction Design for Electronic Musical Interfaces.". Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vienna, Austria. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.89.9906.
  • Schiettecatte, B.; Vanderdonckt, J. (February 2008). "AudioCubes: a distributed cube tangible interface based on interaction range for sound design.". Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. Bonn, Germany. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.116.9378.
gollark: Why JS? Why not C, then, which is always crazy and stupid?
gollark: Er, JS runtimes are, I mean.
gollark: JS (the runtime) is *very* heavily watched for security issues, because you know, *browsers*.
gollark: Probably not.
gollark: Or it's an important project but they can't throw away 20 million lines of bad code.

References
  1. "Monk's Mood, set for April 26–27, turns tap into narrative: 4/02". Archived from the original on 2003-08-22.
  2. "The Laser Harp". Archived from the original on 2007-06-11.
  3. "AudioCubes at Namm 2007". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03.
  4. "Percussa AudioCubes Blog: AudioCubes designer @ TEDx Mediterranean". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10.
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