Instruments of articulation: Signal processing in live performance

Seth Dominicus Thorn, Sha Xin Wei

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

Building on the first author's hybrid/augmented violin practice and the second author's work with responsive media environments, we build and reflect on collectively-played roomscale instruments that afford the precision and nuance of an individually-played real-time gestural media system. We consider gestural instruments designed for the interplay of action and perception at the sensorimotor level bypassing tokenization of features of activity and sensors. Our gesturally-modulated media instruments are based not on models or a priori schemata but driven by continuous adaptation to contingent activity and state of the event, as well as compositional intent. We think of such performable, expressive systems as instruments of articulation rather than of representation. Our work is motivated by a progression from phenomenological interpretations of individually-played instruments through non-anthropocentric notions of lived experience, to ecosystemic approaches to ensembles of real-time instruments, people and processes concurrently co-articulating an event.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMOCO 2019 - 6th International Conference on Movement and Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450376549
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2019
Event6th International Conference for Movement and Computing, MOCO 2019 - Tempe, United States
Duration: Oct 10 2019Oct 12 2019

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference6th International Conference for Movement and Computing, MOCO 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTempe
Period10/10/1910/12/19

Keywords

  • Bergson
  • Deleuze
  • Deleuze and Guattari
  • Experiential systems
  • Gesture
  • Gesture-following
  • Improvisation
  • Instruments
  • James
  • Phenomenology
  • Process philosophy
  • Responsive environments
  • Signal processing
  • Simondon
  • Technical ensembles

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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