Tag Archives: Digital Musical Interactions

Journal of New Music Research; Special Issue on Socio-cultural Role of Technology in Digital Musical Instruments

Following the symposium in Helsinki in 2019, a diverse group of expert scholars, artists, musicians, practitioners continued working together to open further inquiry into and dialogue about socio-cultural role of technology in current and emerging digital music practices. Now the … Continue reading

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Digital Musical Instruments (online talk) Maçka Music Technology Days V / İTÜ TMDK Müzik Teknolojisi Bölümü, February 18 2021

In digital music practices, musicianship, technology, composition and the performance environment are all often conceptualised to the degree that they become embedded in people’s musical instrument building practice, thinking about music, themselves and their relationship with their communities. This embedded … Continue reading

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Uncertain Practices Ars Electronica Garden Espoo/Helsinki / 9 – 13 September 2020

Spring 2020 marked a period of enhanced uncertainty all around the world with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing societies into lockdown. The situation brought up societal and governance challenges that were further internalized into individuals’ thinking and their relationships as communities … Continue reading

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Uncertainty with AI-terity (Music Performance) -Ars Electronica 2020

The composition Uncertainty was presented in Ars Electronica 2020, keeps the musician in a hesitant state of performance, providing a non-rigid but identifiable musical events, followed by ever shifting new sounds. https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/ai-terity-music/

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Al-terity: Non-Rigid Musical Instrument with Artificial Intelligence Applied to Real-Time Audio Synthesis

Our NIME 2020 publication about the AI-terity project is now open accessible online. https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper65.pdf

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Digital Musical Instruments as Probes: How computation changes the mode-of-being of musical instruments

This is another Organised Sound (Open Access) publication by Koray Tahiroğlu, Thor Magnusson, Adam Parkinson, Iris Garrelfs and Atau Tanaka. This article explores how computation opens up possibilities for new musical practices to emerge through technology design. Link tot he … Continue reading

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Idiomatic Patterns and Aesthetic Influence in Computer Music Languages of musical instruments

This is an Organised Sound (Open Access) publication by Andrew McPherson and Koray Tahiroğlu. In this article we examine the ways in which computer music languages might similarly influence the aesthetic decisions of the digital music practitioner, even when those … Continue reading

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InSpace with the Otherness

InSpace with the Otherness is a co-located collaboration with a deep learning algorithm. It provides embodied and spatial opportunities to exhibition visitors for musical exploration. http://sopi.aalto.fi/inspace/

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YLE Interview for Sound Gloves

The Radio Channel of YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company) is interviewing Sound Gloves (2011), a collaborative performance work by Chi-Hsia Lai (SOPI), Carmen Brecheis and Minna Holkkola, carried out in Aalto Media Factory’s Wearable Electronics course. Sound Gloves : wearable musical … Continue reading

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