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

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:14 authored by Thor MagnussonThor Magnusson, Enrike Hurtado Mendieta
This paper reports on a survey conducted in the autumn of 2006 with the objective to understand people's relationship to 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 people's activities of playing, creating or modifying their instruments. The approach used in the survey 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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Journal

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

ISSN

2220-4806

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Page range

94-99

Event name

NIME07: New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Event location

New York, NY, USA

Event type

conference

Event date

June 6-10, 2007

Place of publication

New York

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  • Music Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-11-01

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2013-11-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2013-11-01

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