Creating tangible spatial-musical images from physical performance gestures

Natasha Barrett

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Electroacoustic music has a longstanding relationship with gesture and space. This paper marks the start of a project investigating acousmatic spatial imagery, real gestural behaviour and ultimately the formation of tangible acousmatic images. These concepts are explored experimentally using motion tracking in a source-sound recording context, interactive parameter-mapping sonification in three-dimensional high-order ambisonics, composition and performance. The spatio-musical role of physical actions in relation to instrument excitation is used as a point of departure for embodying physical spatial gestures in the creative process. The work draws on how imagery for music is closely linked with imagery for music-related actions.

Citation

Natasha Barrett. 2015. Creating tangible spatial-musical images from physical performance gestures. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179014

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nbarrett2015,
 abstract = {Electroacoustic music has a longstanding relationship with gesture and space. This paper marks the start of a project investigating acousmatic spatial imagery, real gestural behaviour and ultimately the formation of tangible acousmatic images. These concepts are explored experimentally using motion tracking in a source-sound recording context, interactive parameter-mapping sonification in three-dimensional high-order ambisonics, composition and performance. The spatio-musical role of physical actions in relation to instrument excitation is used as a point of departure for embodying physical spatial gestures in the creative process. The work draws on how imagery for music is closely linked with imagery for music-related actions.},
 address = {Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA},
 author = {Natasha Barrett},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179014},
 editor = {Edgar Berdahl and Jesse Allison},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {May},
 pages = {191--194},
 publisher = {Louisiana State University},
 title = {Creating tangible spatial-musical images from physical performance gestures},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/nime2015_216.pdf},
 urlsuppl1 = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2015/216/0216-file1.zip},
 year = {2015}
}