The computer music tutorial
Interactivity, where to from here?
Organised Sound
Gesture and musical interaction: interactive engagement through dynamic morphology
NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
The metasurface: applying natural neighbour interpolation to two-to-many mapping
NIME '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Expression and its discontents: toward an ecology of musical creation
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Díamair: composing for choir and integral music controller
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Designing constraints: Composing and performing with digital musical systems
Computer Music Journal
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The use of a laptop computer for musical performance has become widespread in the electronic music community. It brings with it many issues pertaining to the communication of musical intent. Critics argue that performances of this nature fail to engage audiences because many performers use the mouse and/or computer keyboard to control their musical works, leaving no visual cues to guide the audience as to the correlation between performance gestures and musical outcomes. The author will argue that interfaces need to communicate something of their task and that cognitive affordances (Gibson 1979) associated with the performance interface become paramount if the musical outcomes are to be perceived as clearly tied to real-time performance gestures – in other words, that the audience are witnessing the creation of the music in that moment as distinct to the manipulation of pre-recorded or pre-sequenced events. Interfaces of his kind lend themselves particularly to electroacoustic and computer music performance where timbre, texture and morphology may be paramount.