“Computer-mediated performance and extended instrument design”
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- Computer-mediated performance and extended instrument design
Session/Category Title: See, Hear, Make, and Play
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This talk will explore conceptual and technical approaches to computer-mediated improvisational performance. Many artists are pursuing a musical practice that combines the roles of composer, system/instrument designer, and performer/improviser. In addition to integrating these often overlapping roles, it is also possible to use computation and interactive systems to refashion the very nature of improvisational performance practice. Many improvisers feel that their musical intuition and ideas are more developed than their physical skills or instrumental technique. This leads to the idealistic notion that somehow, we should be able to focus our energy on the higher-level conceptual aspects of improvisational music/sound making, and use the available technology to reduce some of the physical constraints, steer the larger formal progression, and manage the low-level necessities.
References:
1. Bahn, C., and Trueman, D. 2001. Interface: Electronic Chamber Ensemble. In New Interfaces for Musical Expression at the CHI2001 Conference for Human/Computer Interaction.
2. Ciufo, T. 2005. Beginner’s Mind: an Environment for Sonic Improvisation. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference.
3. Ciufo, T., and Birchfield, D. 2007. Computer-Mediated / Interactive Performance: Moving Boundary Problem – Case Study. In Enaction in Arts Symposium proceedings.
