scholarly journals Appropriating Biosensors as Embodied Control Structures in Interactive Music Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-80
Author(s):  
Luís Aly ◽  
Hugo Silva ◽  
Gilberto Bernardes ◽  
Rui Penha
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Interactive Music Systems

We present a scoping review of biosensors appropriation as control structures in interactive music systems (IMSs). Technical and artistic dimensions promoted by transdisciplinary approaches, ranging from biomedicine to musical performance and interaction design fields, support a taxonomy for biosensor-driven IMSs. A broad catalog of 70 biosensor-driven IMSs, ranging in publication dates from 1965 to 2019, was compiled and categorized according to the proposed taxonomy. From the catalog data, we extrapolated representative historical trends, notably to critically verify our working hypothesis that biosensing technologies are expanding the array of control structures within IMSs. Observed data show that our hypothesis is consistent with the historical evolution of the biosensor-driven IMSs. From our findings, we advance future challenges for novel means of control across humans and machines that should ultimately transform the agents involved in interactive music creation to form new corporalities in extended performative settings.

Key Induction in the Context of Interactive Performance

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
Interactive Performance ◽  
Interactive Music Systems ◽  
Musical Context

Several algorithms for finding the tonal center of a musical context are extant in the literature. For use in interactive music systems, we are interested in algorithms that are fast enough to run in real time and that need only make reference to the material as it appears in sequence. In this article, I examine a number of such algorithms and the ways in which their contribution to real-time algorithmic listening can be bolstered by reference to concurrent analyzers working on other tasks. Though as part of the discussion I review my own key finder, the focus here is on the coordination of published methods using control structures for multiprocess analysis and their application in performance.

scholarly journals A Design Workbench for Interactive Music Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Malloch ◽  
Jérémie Garcia ◽  
Marcelo M. Wanderley ◽  
Wendy E. Mackay ◽  
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Music ◽  
Interactive Music Systems

Understanding Interactive Systems

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Shared Control ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Gestural Control ◽  
System Responsiveness ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interactive Music Systems ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
Sound Generator

This article examines differing approaches to the definition, classification and modelling of interactive music systems, drawing together both historical and contemporary practice. Concepts of shared control, collaboration and conversation metaphors, mapping, gestural control, system responsiveness and separation of interface from sound generator are discussed. The article explores the potential of interactive systems to facilitate the creation of dynamic compositional sonic architectures through performance and improvisation.

The “Swedish model” of dealing with alcohol problems: historical trends and future challenges

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Blomqvist
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Swedish Model ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The Common ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Welfare State

The paper describes and analyzes the development of prevention and care of alcohol problems in Sweden, from the emergence of the temperance issue as a public concern at the turn of the 19th century to the economic and ideological changes that seem to challenge the “Swedish model” of dealing with alcohol problems 100 years later. By applying an analytical model that transcends the common “badness-illness” dualism and provides a bridge between a social-political and a clinically oriented perspective, an attempt is made to relate the historical succession of dominant approaches to alcohol problems to the changing roles of the welfare state. The paper concludes by discussing the future prospects in Sweden of the type of community approach to handling alcohol problems that was first launched at the beginning of the century in Ivan Bratt's pioneer work but still awaits a major breakthrough in practice.

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