Community-Based Design: The Democratization of Musical Interface Construction

Vallis, Owen; Kapur, Ajay

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“…While the term community is often used, it is rarely defined or contextualized in NIME research by means of existing frameworks from other research disciplines, such as social sciences. In this light, the examined community is identified by default as part of a participatory design framework or in some cases loosely defined as an aggregation of practitioners, whether performers, designers or composers [19,29,43].…”

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“…Some of these lie outside and overlap with NIME and academic institutions as seen in the Max/MSP, Pure Data, Super Collider, ChucK, monome [43], or even the circuit bending communities. However, in this discussion I will solely focus on those communities that have closely developed and established themselves alongside the institutional boundaries of the NIME ecology.…”

Section: Case Studies: Interactive Music Communities Within Nimementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whether they are expressed through laptop 'battles', established laptop-orchestra rehearsal routines and pieces [1], or repositories of code and documentation [43], they show the development of the community and demonstrate how meaning changes over time. Of course, as Wenger [49] comments, this meaning retains some degree of ambiguity.…”

Section: Case Studies: Interactive Music Communities Within Nimementioning

confidence: 99%

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2015: Fourteen Years of NIME: The Value and Meaning of ‘Community’ in Interactive Music Research

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2017

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This paper examines the notion of community as commonly employed within NIME discourses. Our aim is to clarify and define the term through the community of practice framework. We argue that through its formal use and application, the notion of community becomes a significant space for the examination of emergent musical practices that could otherwise be overlooked. This paper defines community of practice, as originally developed in the social sciences by Lave and Wegener, and applies it within the NIME context through the examination of existing communities of practice such as the laptop performance community, laptop orchestras, as well as the Satellite CCRMA and Patchblocks communities.

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Designing Wearable Technology for Opera

Hartman

Puckett

Tindale

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Contemporary Approaches to Live Computer Music: The Evolution of the Performer Composer

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<p>This thesis examines contemporary approaches to live computer music, and the impact they have on the evolution of the composer performer. How do online resources and communities impact the design and creation of new musical interfaces used for live computer music? Can we use machine learning to augment and extend the expressive potential of a single live musician? How can these tools be integrated into ensembles of computer musicians? Given these tools, can we understand the computer musician within the traditional context of acoustic instrumentalists, or do we require new concepts and taxonomies? Lastly, how do audiences perceive and understand these new technologies, and what does this mean for the connection between musician and audience? The focus of the research presented in this dissertation examines the application of current computing technology towards furthering the field of live computer music. This field is diverse and rich, with individual live computer musicians developing custom instruments and unique modes of performance. This diversity leads to the development of new models of performance, and the evolution of established approaches to live instrumental music. This research was conducted in several parts. The first section examines how online communities are iteratively developing interfaces for computer music. Several case studies are presented as examples of how online communities are helping to drive new developments in musical interface design. This thesis also presents research into designing real-time interactive systems capable of creating a virtual model of an existing performer, that then allows the model’s output to be contextualized by a second performer’s live input. These systems allow for a solo live musician’s single action to be multiplied into many different, but contextually dependent, actions. Additionally, this thesis looks at contemporary approaches to local networked ensembles, the concept of shared social instruments, and the ways in which the previously described research can be used in these ensembles. The primary contributions of these efforts include (1) the development of several new open-source interfaces for live computer music, and the examination of the effect that online communities have on the evolution of musical interfaces; (2) the development of a novel approach to search based interactive musical agents; (3) examining how networked music ensembles can provided new forms of shared social instruments.</p>

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Community-Based Design: The Democratization of Musical Interface Construction

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

2015: Fourteen Years of NIME: The Value and Meaning of ‘Community’ in Interactive Music Research

2015: Fourteen Years of NIME: The Value and Meaning of ‘Community’ in Interactive Music Research

Designing Wearable Technology for Opera

Contemporary Approaches to Live Computer Music: The Evolution of the Performer Composer

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