TY - GEN
T1 - Improvisation at the Edge of Chaos: A Worked-Through Design and Performance Practice for Electronic Improvisation
AU - Bowers, John
AU - Hagan, Kerry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 John Bowers and Kerry Hagan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - We explore the relationships between sound synthesis, non-linear dynamics and improvisation through developing performance environments for the creation and manipulation of complex sound worlds in real-time. We draw on recent approaches in design research to formulate a collaborative creative practice which is initiated by a common set of technological resources, develops through the design of multiple synthesis, sound processing and interaction techniques, and culminates with their assembly into performance environments for the authors as they perform and record their duo improvisations. The paper closes with a reflection on the interaction design concepts which have been encountered in the work and on how creative research can be done in a manner which simultaneously serves technical design and artistic ends.
AB - We explore the relationships between sound synthesis, non-linear dynamics and improvisation through developing performance environments for the creation and manipulation of complex sound worlds in real-time. We draw on recent approaches in design research to formulate a collaborative creative practice which is initiated by a common set of technological resources, develops through the design of multiple synthesis, sound processing and interaction techniques, and culminates with their assembly into performance environments for the authors as they perform and record their duo improvisations. The paper closes with a reflection on the interaction design concepts which have been encountered in the work and on how creative research can be done in a manner which simultaneously serves technical design and artistic ends.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 - International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
SP - 327
EP - 332
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 - International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
PB - International Computer Music Association
T2 - 45th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2019 and International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYCEMF 2019
Y2 - 16 June 2019 through 23 June 2019
ER -