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The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instruments

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:32 authored by Thor MagnussonThor Magnusson, Enrike Hurtado
This paper reports on a survey conducted in the autumn of 2006 with the objective to understand people’s relationship with 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 the activities of playing, creating, or modifying instruments. The survey focus 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.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Springer

Issue

3

Page range

317-333

Book title

A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Place of publication

Cham

ISBN

9783319472133

Series

Current Research in Systematic Musicology

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  • Music Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Alexander Jensenius, Michael Lyons

Legacy Posted Date

2017-08-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-08-04

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