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Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machines
The ixi software project started in 2000 with the intention to explore new interactive patterns and virtual interfaces in computer music software. The aim of this paper is not to describe these programs, as they have been described elsewhere, but rather explicate the theoretical background that underlies the design of these screen-based instruments. After an analysis of the similarities and differences in the design of acoustic and screen-based instruments, the paper describes how the creation of an interface is essentially the creation of a semiotic system that affects and influences the musician and the composer. Finally the terminology of this semiotics is explained as an interaction model.
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Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on New interfaces for Musical ExpressionISSN
2220-4806Publisher
IRCAMPublisher URL
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162-167Event name
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07)Event location
New York, NY, USAEvent type
conferenceEvent date
June 6-10, 2007ISBN
2844263143Department affiliated with
- Music Publications
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2013-11-01Usage metrics
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