Rasper: a Mechatronic Noise-Intoner

Mo Zareei, Ajay Kapur, and Dale A. Carnegie

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2014
• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Pages: 473–478
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178995 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Over the past few decades, there has been an increasing number of musical instruments and works of sound art that incorporate robotics and mechatronics. This paper proposes a new approach in classification of such works and focuses on those whose ideological roots can be sought in Luigi Russolo's noise-intoners (intonarumori). It presents a discussion on works in which mechatronics is used to investigate new and traditionally perceived as ``extra-musical'' sonic territories, and introduces Rasper: a new mechatronic noise-intoner that features an electromechanical apparatus to create noise physically, while regulating it rhythmically and timbrally.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{mzareei2014,
 abstract = {Over the past few decades, there has been an increasing number of musical instruments and works of sound art that incorporate robotics and mechatronics. This paper proposes a new approach in classification of such works and focuses on those whose ideological roots can be sought in Luigi Russolo's noise-intoners (intonarumori). It presents a discussion on works in which mechatronics is used to investigate new and traditionally perceived as ``extra-musical'' sonic territories, and introduces Rasper: a new mechatronic noise-intoner that features an electromechanical apparatus to create noise physically, while regulating it rhythmically and timbrally.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 author = {Mo Zareei and Ajay Kapur and Dale A. Carnegie},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178995},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {473--478},
 publisher = {Goldsmiths, University of London},
 title = {Rasper: a Mechatronic Noise-Intoner},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_268.pdf},
 year = {2014}
}