Article

Magnusson, Thor (2021) The migration of musical instruments: on the socio-technological conditions of musical evolution. Journal of New Music Research, 50 (2). pp. 175-183. ISSN 0929-8215

Bernardo, Francisco, Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2020) A signal engine for a live coding language ecosystem. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 68 (10). pp. 756-766. ISSN 0004-7554

Hurtado, Enrike, Magnusson, Thor and Rekalde, Josu (2020) Digitizing the txalaparta: computer-based study of a traditional practice. Computer Music Journal, 43 (2-3). pp. 125-141. ISSN 0148-9267

Tahiroğlu, Koray, Magnusson, Thor, Parkinson, Adam, Garellfs, Iris and Tanaka, Atau (2020) Digital musical instruments as probes: how computation changes the mode-of-being of musical instruments. Organised Sound, 25 (1). pp. 64-74. ISSN 1355-7718

Magnusson, Thor (2019) [Review] Tom Garner (2018) Echoes of other worlds: sound in virtual reality. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 15 (1). pp. 122-123. ISSN 1479-4713

Magnusson, Thor (2018) Ergodynamics and a semiotics of instrumental composition. Tempo, 73 (287). pp. 41-51. ISSN 0040-2982

Magnusson, Thor (2017) Musical organics: a heterarchical approach to digital organology. Journal of New Music Research, 46 (3). pp. 286-303. ISSN 0929-8215

Magnusson, Thor and Sicchio, Kate (2016) [Editorial] Writing with shaky hands. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 12 (2). pp. 99-101. ISSN 1479-4713

Magnusson, Thor (2014) Scoring with code: composing with algorithmic notation. Organised Sound, 19 (3). pp. 268-275. ISSN 1355-7718

Magnusson, Thor (2014) Herding cats: observing live coding in the wild. Computer Music Journal, 38 (1). pp. 8-16. ISSN 0148-9267

Magnusson, Thor (2013) On creativity and calculation: attempts at and rejections of formal definitions of creativity [Review] editors: Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno (2012) Computers and creativity. Computational Culture, 3. ISSN 2047-2390

Magnusson, Thor (2011) Algorithms as scores: coding live music. Leonardo Music Journal, 21. pp. 19-23.

Magnusson, Thor (2010) Designing constraints: composing and performing with digital musical systems. Computer Music Journal, 34 (4). pp. 62-73. ISSN 0148-9267

Magnusson, Thor (2010) Come se emborrachar un ordenador. Sonic Ideas / Ideas Sónicas, 2 (2). ISSN 2317-9694

Magnusson, Thor (2009) Of epistemic tools: musical instruments as cognitive extensions. Organised Sound, 14 (2). pp. 168-176. ISSN 1355-7718

Magnusson, Thor and Magnusson, Runar (2009) SameSameButDifferent v.02 – Iceland. Rafskinna - DVD Magazine.

Magnusson, Thor and Hurtado, Enrike (2009) The phenomenology of musical instruments: a survey. eContact, 10 (4).

Magnusson, Thor (2008) Working with sound. Digital Artists Handbook..

Magnusson, Thor (2000) Video in transit. NU: the Nordic art review, 2 (5). ISSN 1404-207X

Book Section

Magnusson, Thor (2018) Sound and music in networked media. In: Bull, Michael (ed.) Routledge Companion to Sound Studies. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions . Routledge, London. ISBN 1138854255

Magnusson, Thor and McLean, Alex (2018) Performing with patterns of time. In: Dean, Roger and McLean, Alex (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780190226992

Magnusson, Thor (2017) Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instruments. In: Bovermann, T, de Campo, A, Egermann, H, Hardjowirogo, S I and Weinzierl, S (eds.) Musical instruments in the 21st century: identities, configurations, practices. Springer, pp. 153-166. ISBN 9789811029509

Magnusson, Thor and Hurtado, Enrike (2017) The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instruments. In: Jensenius, Alexander and Lyons, Michael (eds.) A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Current Research in Systematic Musicology (3). Springer, Cham, pp. 317-333. ISBN 9783319472133

Magnusson, Thor (2014) From a music industry to sound industries. In: Carvalhais, Miguel and Tudela, Pedro (eds.) Mono #2: cochlear poetics: writings on music and sound arts. Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS), Porto, pp. 71-78. ISBN 9789899874503

Magnusson, Thor (2012) Interview with Thor Magnusson. In: The digital musician: 2nd edition. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415806596

Magnusson, Thor (2011) Interface investigations: the thinking behind tools for musical thinking. In: Collins, Nick, Wilson, Scott and Cottle, David (eds.) The SuperCollider book. MIT Press, Massachussets. ISBN 9780262232692

Magnusson, Thor (2008) Expression and time: the question of strata and time management in art practices using technology. In: de Valk, Marloes and Mansoux, Aymeric (eds.) FLOSS + Art Book. goto10, Poitiers, pp. 232-247.

Magnusson, Thor (2007) Icelandic experiments. In: Bjurestam, Maria, Hägglund, Maria, Petersson, Mona and Persson, Annika Ruth (eds.) LARM : från munhåla till laptop : ljud i nordisk konst : from mouth cavity to laptop : the sound of nordic art. Kabusa Böcker, Stockholm. ISBN 9789189680968

Magnusson, Thor and Kirkegaard, Jacob (2005) Söngvar Sólvindanna. In: Sondergaard, Morten, Rastas, Perttu and Norberg, Bjorn (eds.) Get real: real time + art + theory + practice + history. George Braziller, Copenhagen. ISBN 0807615641

Magnusson, Thor (2003) Lunarly visible. In: Mir, Alexandra and Kelsey, John (eds.) Corporate mentality. Lukas & Sternberg, New York. ISBN 9780971119314

Conference or Workshop Item

Magnusson, Thor (2015) Sight and sound: visualizing music in software instruments. In: Ableton Loop Summit, October 30 - November 1, 2015, Berlin.

Magnusson, Thor (2015) Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instruments. In: ICSRiM Student Conference on Music, Multimedia and Electronics (iscMME), June 15th, 2015, Leeds.

Magnusson, Thor (2014) Algorithmic notation: scores and timelines. In: Di Stanze Music Festival, November 1st, 2014, Leeds.

Magnusson, Thor (2013) The threnoscope: a musical work for live coding performance. In: First International Workshop on Live Programming in conjunction with ICSE 2013, May 18th - 26th, 2013, San Francisco, CA.

Magnusson, Thor (2011) The musical score: the system and the interpreter. In: International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2011), 14-21 September 2011, Istanbul.

Conference Proceedings

Magnusson, Thor, Kiefer, Chris and Ulfarsson, Halldor (2022) Reflexions upon feedback: a study of feedback musicianship terminology. New Interfaces for Musical Expression, New Zealand, 28 June – 1 July 2022. Published in: New Interfaces for Musical Expression proceedings. NIME, New Zealand. ISSN 2220-4806

Armitage, Jack, Magnusson, Thor, Shepardson, Victor and Ulfarsson, Halldor (2022) The proto-langspil: launching an Icelandic NIME research lab with the help of a marginalised instrument. New Interfaces For Musical Expression, New Zealand, 28 June – 1 July 2022. Published in: New Interfaces for Musical Expression proceedings. NIME, New Zealand. ISSN 2220-4806

Bernardo, Francisco, Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2021) Assessing the support for creativity of a playground for live coding machine learning. The 20th International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Coimbra, Portugal, Nov. 2-5, 2021. Published in: Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021. 13056 449-456. Springer, Cham. ISBN 9783030893934

Bernardo, Francisco, Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2021) AIrgots. Web Audio Conference 2021, Barcelona, 5th - 7th of July 2021. Published in: WAC Proceedings. WAC ISSN 2663-5844

Magnusson, Thor, Eldridge, Alice and Kiefer, Chris (2020) Instrumental investigations at the Emute lab. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham, UK, 21 - 5 July 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,. 509-513. NIME ISSN 2220-4806

Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2020) Live coding machine learning and machine listening: a survey on the design of languages and environments for live coding. ICLC 2019 International Conference on Live Coding, Media Lab Prado, Madrid, 16-18th January 2019. Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Live Coding. Medialab Prado ISBN 9788418299087

Bernardo, Francisco, Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2020) Designing for a pluralist and user-friendly live code language ecosystem with Sema. International Conference on Live Coding, Limerick, Ireland, 5 - 7 February 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC2020). 41-58. ISBN 9781911620235

Bernardo, Francisco, Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2019) An AudioWorklet-based signal engine for a live coding language ecosystem. Web Audio Conference, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, 4-6 December 2019. Published in: Roma, Gerard, (ed.) Proceedings of Web Audio Conference (WAC-2019). 77-82. WAC ISSN 2663-5844

Graham, Thomas J, Magnusson, Thor, Rajguru, Chinmay, Yazdan, Arash Pour, Jacobs, Alex and Memoli, Gianluca (2019) Composing spatial soundscapes using acoustic metasurfaces. AM'19: Audio Mostly, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September, 2019. Published in: Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound. 103-110. Association for Computing Machinery ISBN 9781450372978

Magnusson, Thor (2018) Ergomimesis: towards a language describing instrumental transductions. ICLI 2018. International Conference on Live Interfaces, Porto, Portugal, June 14-16, 2018. Published in: Alberto Gomes, José Alberto, Carvalhais, Miguel and Penha, Rui, (eds.) Proceedings: ICLI 2018, 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces. Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation.. 78-85. Universidade do Porto, Porto. ISBN 9789897461705

Polimeneas-Liontiris, Thanos, Eldridge, Alice, Kiefer, Chris and Magnusson, Thor (2018) The ensemble as expanded interface sympoetic performance in the Brain Dead Ensemble. ICLI 2018. International Conference on Live Interfaces, Porto, Portugal, June 14-16, 2018. Published in: Gomes, José Alberto, Carvalhais, Miguel and Penha, Rui, (eds.) Proceedings: ICLI 2018, 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces. Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation.. 117-125. Universidade do Porto, Porto. ISBN 9789897461705

Magnusson, Thor (2017) Contextualizing musical organics: an ad-hoc organological classification approach. NIME 2017, Copenhagen, May 14-20. Published in: Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. University of Aalborg

Hurtado, Enrike and Magnusson, Thor (2016) Notating the non-notateable: digital notation of txalaparta practice. Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 27-29 May 2016. Published in: Hoadley, Richard, Fober, Dominique and Nash, Chris, (eds.) International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation. 2 44-49. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. ISBN 9780993146114

Magnusson, Thor, Kiefer, Chris and Duffy, Sam (2016) Editorial: On the technology of liveness. International Conference on Live Interfaces, University of Sussex, 29 June - 3 July, 2016. Published in: Magnusson, Thor, Kiefer, Chris and Duffy, Sam, (eds.) Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces. 12-12. Emute Lab + REFRAME Books, Brighton. ISBN 9780993199684

Magnusson, Thor (2015) Code scores in live coding practice. TENOR 2015: First International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Paris, France, 28-30 May, 2015. Published in: Battier, Marc, Bresson, Jean, Couprie, Pierre, Davy-Rigaux, Cécile, Fober, Dominique, Geslin, Yann, Genevois, Hugues, Picard, François and Tacaille, Alice, (eds.) TENOR 2015: International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation. 1 (1) 134-139. Institut de Recherche en Musicologie ISBN 9782955290507

Magnusson, Thor (2014) Improvising with the threnoscope: integrating code, hardware, GUI, network, and graphic scores. NIME 2014 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Goldsmiths, University of London, Jun 30-Jul 4, 2014. Published in: Caramiaux, Baptiste, Tahiroğlu, Koray, Fiebrink, Rebecca and Tanaka, Atau, (eds.) Proceedings of the Internation Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Goldsmiths University of London, London. ISSN 2220-4792 ISBN 9781906897291

Kermik, Jüri, Magnusson, Thor, Wilson, Michael and Brooker, Graeme (2013) Design futures: the grid - a transdisciplinary education. Knowing (by) Designing, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture Ghent-Brussels/Belgium Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven, May 22-23, 2013. Published in: Verbeke, Johan and Pak, Burak, (eds.) Knowing (by) Designing: Proceedings of the conference ‘Knowing (by) Designing’. LUCA, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture / KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture ISBN 9789081323864

Magnusson, Thor (2011) Confessions of a live coder. International Computer Music Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK, 31 July - 5 August 2011. Published in: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011. 609-616. Michigan Publishing ISSN 2223-3881

Magnusson, Thor (2011) ixi lang: a SuperCollider parasite for live coding. International Computer Music Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK, 31 July - 5 August 2011. Published in: Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference 2011. 503-506. Michigan Publishing ISSN 2223-3881

Magnusson, Thor (2010) An epistemic dimension space for musical devices. NIME 2010, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 15-18 June, 2010. Published in: Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 2010 43-46. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney. ISSN 2220-4806

Magnusson, Thor (2010) ixi lang: a constraint system for live coding. International Symposium on Electronic Art, Ruhr, Germany, 20-29 August, 2010. Published in: Funke, Judith, Riekeles, Stefan and Broeckmann, Andreas, (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art. 198-200. Revolver Publishing, Berlin. ISBN 9783868951035

Magnusson, Thor and Hurtado Mendieta, Enrike (2007) The acoustic, the digital and the body: a survey on musical instruments. NIME07: New Interfaces for Musical Expression, New York, NY, USA, June 6-10, 2007. Published in: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 94-99. Association for Computing Machinery, New York. ISSN 2220-4806

Magnusson, Thor (2007) The ixiQuarks: merging code and GUI in one creative space. International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 August - 1 September, 2007. Published in: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007. 2007 332-339. Michegan Publishing ISSN 2223-3881

Magnusson, Thor (2006) Affordances and constraints in screen-based musical instruments. NordiCHINordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Oslo, Norway, 14-18 October, 2006. Published in: Mørch, Anders, Morgan, Konrad, Bratteteig, Tone, Ghosh, Gautam and Svanaes, Dag, (eds.) Proceedings of NordiCHI: The Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles. 441-444. ACM, New York. ISBN 9781595933256

Magnusson, Thor (2006) Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machines. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York, NY, USA, June 6-10, 2007. Published in: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on New interfaces for Musical Expression. 162-167. IRCAM ISSN 2220-4806 ISBN 2844263143

Magnusson, Thor (2005) IXI software: open controllers for open source audio software. ICMC 2005: International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 4-10 September, 2005. Published in: Free Sound: The ICMC 2005 Conference Proceedings. International Computer Music Association, San Francisco. ISSN 2223-3881 ISBN 9780971319233

Book

Blackwell, Alan F, Cocker, Emma, Cox, Geoff, McLean, Alex and Magnusson, Thor (2022) Live coding: a user's manual. Software Studies . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN 9780262544818

Magnusson, Thor (2019) Scoring sound creative music coding with SuperCollider. LeanPub, Brighton.

Magnusson, Thor (2019) Sonic writing: technologies of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions. Bloomsbury Academic, New York. ISBN 9781501313851

Edited Book

Magnusson, Thor, Kiefer, Chris and Duffy, Sam (2016) Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces. Live Interfaces, 3 . Emute Lab + REFRAME Books, Brighton. ISBN 9780993199684

McLean, Alex, Magnusson, Thor, Ng, Kia, Knotts, Shelly and Armitage, Joanne (2015) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Live Coding. International Conference on Live Coding, 1 (1). ICSRiM, School of Music, Leeds. ISBN 9780853163404

Thesis

Magnusson, Thor (2009) Epistemic tools: the phenomenology of digital musical instruments. Doctoral thesis (DPhil), University of Sussex.

Performance

Eldridge, Alice, Kiefer, Chris, Magnusson, Thor and Polymeneas Liontiris, Thanos (2018) Brain Dead Ensemble: an acoustically networked feedback assemblage of four. [Performance]

Video

Magnusson, Thor, McLean, Alex and Collins, Nick (2011) Live coding DVD. [Video]

Other

Magnusson, Thor (2020) Threnoscope. Jekyll.

Magnusson, Thor (2011) When instruments become architecture: on liquefying frozen music. Wergo.