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The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instruments
conference contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 16:14 authored by Thor MagnussonThor Magnusson, Enrike Hurtado MendietaThis paper reports on a survey conducted in the autumn of 2006 with the objective to understand people's relationship to their musical tools. The survey focused on the question of embodiment and its different modalities in the fields of acoustic and digital instruments. The questions of control, instrumental entropy, limitations and creativity were addressed in relation to people's activities of playing, creating or modifying their instruments. The approach used in the survey was phenomenological, i.e. we were concerned with the experience of playing, composing for and designing digital or acoustic instruments. At the time of analysis, we had 209 replies from musicians, composers, engineers, designers, artists and others interested in this topic. The survey was mainly aimed at instrumentalists and people who create their own instruments or compositions in flexible audio programming environments such as SuperCollider, Pure Data, ChucK, Max/MSP, CSound, etc.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Accepted version
Journal
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical ExpressionISSN
2220-4806Publisher
Association for Computing MachineryExternal DOI
Page range
94-99Event name
NIME07: New Interfaces for Musical ExpressionEvent location
New York, NY, USAEvent type
conferenceEvent date
June 6-10, 2007Place of publication
New YorkDepartment affiliated with
- Music Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes