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Ergomimesis: towards a language describing instrumental transductions
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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Proceedings: ICLI 2018, 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces. Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation.Publisher
Universidade do PortoPublisher URL
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78-85Event name
ICLI 2018. International Conference on Live InterfacesEvent location
Porto, PortugalEvent type
conferenceEvent date
June 14-16, 2018Place of publication
PortoISBN
9789897461705Department affiliated with
- Music Publications
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José Alberto Alberto Gomes, Rui Penha, Miguel CarvalhaisLegacy Posted Date
2018-04-06First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-01-17First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-04-06Usage metrics
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