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The ixiQuarks: merging code and GUI in one creative space
This paper reports on ixiQuarks; an environment of instruments and effects that is built on top of the audio programming language SuperCollider. The rationale of these instruments is to explore alternative ways of designing musical interaction in screen-based software, and investigate how semiotics in interface design affects the musical output. The ixiQuarks are part of external libraries available to SuperCollider through the Quarks system. They are software instruments based on a non- realist design ideology that rejects the simulation of acoustic instruments or music hardware and focuses on experimentation at the level of musical interaction. In this environment we try to merge the graphical with the textual in the same instruments, allowing the user to reprogram and change parts of them in runtime. After a short introduction to SuperCollider and the Quark system, we will describe the ixiQuarks and the philosophical basis of their design. We conclude by looking at how they can be seen as epistemic tools that influence the musician in a complex hermeneutic circle of interpretation and signification.
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Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007ISSN
2223-3881Publisher
Michegan PublishingPublisher URL
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2007Page range
332-339Event name
International Computer Music ConferenceEvent location
Copenhagen, DenmarkEvent type
conferenceEvent date
27 August - 1 September, 2007Department affiliated with
- Music Publications
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2013-11-11Usage metrics
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