The T-Stick: Maintaining A 12 Year-Old Digital Musical Instrument

Nieva, Alex; Wang, Johnty; Malloch, Joseph; Wanderley, Marcelo M.

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“…The case of the T-Stick [75] is particularly relevant in this sense, as its longevity has been explicitly addressed for several years. By looking at this case, we can identify two main approaches 1) building research and cultural activities that promote and give continuity to the practices linked to the use of the instrument [49], and 2) updating the instrument and contrasting obsolescence [67,93]. Concerning continuity of practice, the T-Stick developers used it for new studies [135] and created ad-hoc commissions and workshops to help composers to adopt the instrument [49].…”

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“…Indeed, it is important here to stress that the early disposal of an instrument is not only dependent on technical aspects but often also derived from a lack of context to actually use it. From the technical point of view, the original instrument has also been updated [93]. To update the instruments, an IoMusT approach can be particularly relevant.…”

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The use of internet-based and networking technology in computer music systems has greatly increased in the past few years. Such efforts fall in the remits of the emerging filed of the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT), the extension of the Internet of Things paradigm to the musical domain. Given the increasing importance of connected devices in the musical domain, it is essential to reflect on the relationship between such systems and sustainability at the environmental and social levels. In this paper, we address this aspect from two perspectives: 1) how to design IoMusT systems in a sustainable way, and 2) how IoMusT systems can support sustainability. To this end, we relied on three lenses, combining literature from green IoT (lens 1), Sustainable HCI (lens 2), and the Sustainable Development Goals from the United Nations (lens 3). By combining these three lenses, we developed five strategies for a sustainable IoMusT, which are extensively presented and discussed providing critical reflections.

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The T-Stick Music Creation Project: An approach to building a creative community around a DMI

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To tackle digital musical instrument (DMI) longevity and the problem of the second performer, we proposed the T-Stick Music Creation Project, a series of musical commissions along with workshops, mentorship, and technical support, meant to foment composition and performance using the T-Stick and provide an opportunity to improve technical and pedagogical support for the instrument. Based on the project's outcomes, we describe three main contributions: our approach; the artistic works produced; and analysis of these works demonstrating the T-Stick as actuator, modulator, and data provider.

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DMI Apprenticeship: Sharing and Replicating Musical Artefacts

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The nature of digital musical instruments (DMIs), often bespoke artefacts devised by single or small groups of technologists, requires thought about how they are shared and archived so that others can replicate or adapt designs. The ability for replication contributes to an instrument's longevity and creates opportunities for both DMI designers and researchers. Research papers often omit necessary knowledge for replicating research artefacts, but we argue that mitigating this situation is not just about including design materials and documentation. Our way of approaching this issue is by drawing on an age-old method as a way of disseminating knowledge, the apprenticeship. We propose the DMI apprenticeship as a way of exploring the procedural obstacles of replicating DMIs, while highlighting for both apprentice and designer the elements of knowledge that are a challenge to communicate in conventional documentation. Our own engagement with the DMI apprenticeship led to successfully replicating an instrument, Strummi. Framing this process as an apprenticeship highlighted the non-obvious areas of the documentation and manufacturing process that are crucial in the successful replication of a DMI.

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The T-Stick: Maintaining A 12 Year-Old Digital Musical Instrument

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Sustainable Internet of Musical Things: Strategies to Account for Environmental and Social Sustainability in Network-Based Interactive Music Systems

Sustainable Internet of Musical Things: Strategies to Account for Environmental and Social Sustainability in Network-Based Interactive Music Systems

The T-Stick Music Creation Project: An approach to building a creative community around a DMI

DMI Apprenticeship: Sharing and Replicating Musical Artefacts

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