New Digital Musical Instruments
Title | New Digital Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo Reck Miranda |
Publisher | A-R Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 089579585X |
xxii + 286 pp.Includes a Foreword by Ross Kirk
Instruments for New Music
Title | Instruments for New Music PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Patteson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0520288025 |
Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium
Handmade Electronic Music
Title | Handmade Electronic Music PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Collins |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0415996090 |
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Musical Instruments in the 21st Century
Title | Musical Instruments in the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Till Bovermann |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 2016-12-09 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9811029512 |
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?
Push Turn Move
Title | Push Turn Move PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Bjørn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Electronic musical instruments |
ISBN | 9788799999507 |
The Physics of Musical Instruments
Title | The Physics of Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Neville H. Fletcher |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 763 |
Release | 2013-11-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0387216030 |
While the history of musical instruments is nearly as old as civilisation itself, the science of acoustics is quite recent. By understanding the physical basis of how instruments are used to make music, one hopes ultimately to be able to give physical criteria to distinguish a fine instrument from a mediocre one. At that point science may be able to come to the aid of art in improving the design and performance of musical instruments. As yet, many of the subtleties in musical sounds of which instrument makers and musicians are aware remain beyond the reach of modern acoustic measurements. This book describes the results of such acoustical investigations - fascinating intellectual and practical exercises. Addressed to readers with a reasonable grasp of physics who are not put off by a little mathematics, this book discusses most of the traditional instruments currently in use in Western music. A guide for all who have an interest in music and how it is produced, as well as serving as a comprehensive reference for those undertaking research in the field.
Designing Digital Musical Instruments Using Probatio
Title | Designing Digital Musical Instruments Using Probatio PDF eBook |
Author | Filipe Calegario |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2018-12-24 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3030028925 |
The author presents Probatio, a toolkit for building functional DMI (digital musical instruments) prototypes, artifacts in which gestural control and sound production are physically decoupled but digitally mapped. He uses the concept of instrumental inheritance, the application of gestural and/or structural components of existing instruments to generate ideas for new instruments. To support analysis and combination, he then leverages a traditional design method, the morphological chart, in which existing artifacts are split into parts, presented in a visual form and then recombined to produce new ideas. And finally he integrates the concept and the method in a concrete object, a physical prototyping toolkit for building functional DMI prototypes: Probatio. The author's evaluation of this modular system shows it reduces the time required to develop functional prototypes. The book is useful for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the areas of musical creativity and human-computer interaction, in particular those engaged in generating, communicating, and testing ideas in complex design spaces.