Musical Instruments in the 21st Century: Identities, Configurations, PracticesTill Bovermann, Alberto de Campo, Hauke Egermann, Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo, Stefan Weinzierl By exploring the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments, this book contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century. Providing insights from science, humanities and the arts, authors from a wide range of disciplines discuss the following questions: · What are the conditions under which an object is recognized as a musical instrument? · What are the actions and procedures typically associated with musical instruments?· What kind of (mental and physical) knowledge do we access in order to recognize or use something as a musical instrument? · How is this knowledge being shaped by cultural conventions and temporal conditions? · How do algorithmic processes 'change the game' of musical performance, and as a result, how do they affect notions of instrumentality? · How do we address the question of instrumental identity within an instrument's design process? · What properties can be used to differentiate successful and unsuccessful instruments? Do these properties also contribute to the instrumentality of an object in general? What does success mean within an artistic, commercial, technological, or scientific context? |
Contents
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A Linguistic Exploration of Musical Instrumentality in the Digital Era | 25 |
4 From Idiophone to Touchpad The Technological Development to the Virtual Musical Instrument | 45 |
5 Musical Instruments as Assemblage | 59 |
Aesthetic Implications of an Instrumental Assemblage and Its Fortuitous Voice | 67 |
Implications of Classifying Musical Instruments on Basic Music Research | 79 |
Compose Play Perform | 222 |
15 Interplay Between Composition Instrument Design and Performance | 225 |
16 Instrumentality in Sonic Wilderness | 242 |
17 Instrumental Modality On Wanting to Play Something | 263 |
18 Instruments for Spatial Sound Control in Real Time Music Performances A Review | 273 |
Instrumentality Agency and Technology in Musical Performance | 297 |
20 No Flute Is an Island Entire of Itself Transgressing Performers Instruments and Instrumentality in Contemporary Music | 315 |
A Network for Improvising Music with Code | 327 |
Design Make Create | 95 |
8 Movement Meets MaterialAn Improvisational Approach to Design | 96 |
9 Instrumentality Time and Perseverance | 127 |
HumanMachine Partnerships Shaping Expressive Instrumental Creation | 137 |
Visual Representation of Sound in Musical Software Instruments | 153 |
12 Digital Media and Electronic Music in the ClassroomThe Loop Ensemble | 167 |
Adventures in the Development of an Electronic Wind Instrument | 180 |
The Endangered Guitar | 207 |
The Musical Practices of and a ManyFesto by Trio Brachiale | 334 |
Listen Perceive Feel | 361 |
Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to the Audiences Experience of Digital Musical Instruments | 363 |
What Features Make an Instrument More Attractive for a Solo Role in Concertos? | 371 |
On the Role of Familiarity and Sound Source Categories in Timbre Perception | 385 |
26 What If Your Instrument Is Invisible? | 397 |