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Ergomimesis: towards a language describing instrumental transductions

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:46 authored by Thor MagnussonThor Magnusson
This speculative paper proposes a terminology of ergomimesis for engaging with the way new musical instruments derive their design from previous music technologies. What new instruments translate from earlier technologies are not simply the simulation of an interface, but a whole constellation of embodied contexts, where trained movements, musical actions, human-instrument relationships and other processes are translated to a technology of a different material substratum (from the organic to the digital material). The concept of ergodynamics in a musical instrument is subsequently contextualised in relation to the semiotics of mapping, from the background of the Peircian analysis of the sign.

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Sonic Writing: Technologies of Musical Expression, Notation and Encoding; G1769; AHRC-ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL; AH/N00194X/1

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  • Published

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Journal

Proceedings: ICLI 2018, 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces. Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation.

Publisher

Universidade do Porto

Page range

78-85

Event name

ICLI 2018. International Conference on Live Interfaces

Event location

Porto, Portugal

Event type

conference

Event date

June 14-16, 2018

Place of publication

Porto

ISBN

9789897461705

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  • Music Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Editors

José Alberto Alberto Gomes, Rui Penha, Miguel Carvalhais

Legacy Posted Date

2018-04-06

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-01-17

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-04-06

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