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Contextualizing musical organics: an ad-hoc organological classification approach
As a research field, NIME is characterised by a plethora of design approaches, hardware, and software technologies. Formed of an interdisciplinary research community with divergent end-goals, the diversity of aims, objectives, methods, and outcomes is striking. Ranging from expressive interfaces, to musicological concerns, novel sensor technologies, and artificial creativity, the research presented is heterogeneous, distinct, and original. The design of digital instruments is very different from the making of acoustic instruments, due to the bespoke traditions and production environments of the disciplines mentioned above, but notably also because of the heightened epistemic dimension inscribed in the materiality of digital systems. These new materialities are often hardware and software technologies manufactured for purposes other than music. Without having to support established traditions and relationships between the instrument maker and the performer or composer, new digital musical instruments often develop at the speed of the computer’s technical culture, as opposed to the slower evolution of more culturally engrained acoustic instrument design.
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Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical ExpressionPublisher
University of AalborgEvent name
NIME 2017Event location
CopenhagenEvent type
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May 14-20Department affiliated with
- Music Publications
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2017-05-03First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2017-05-03Usage metrics
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