Exploring Identity Through Design: A Focus on the Cultural Body Via Nami

Sara Sithi-Amnuai

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Identity is inextricably linked to culture and sustained through creation and performance of music and dance, yet discussion of agency and cultural tools informing design and performance application of gestural controllers is not widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the cultural body, its consideration in existing gestural controller design, and how cultural design methods have the potential to extend musical/social identities and/or traditions within a technological context. In an effort to connect and reconnect with the author’s personal Nikkei heritage, this paper will discuss the design of Nami – a custom built gestural controller and its applicability to extend the author’s cultural body through a community-centric case study performance.

Citation:

Sara Sithi-Amnuai. 2020. Exploring Identity Through Design: A Focus on the Cultural Body Via Nami. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4813188

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME20_109,
 abstract = {Identity is inextricably linked to culture and sustained through creation and performance of music and dance, yet discussion of agency and cultural tools informing design and performance application of gestural controllers is not widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the cultural body, its consideration in existing gestural controller design, and how cultural design methods have the potential to extend musical/social identities and/or traditions within a technological context. In an effort to connect and reconnect with the author’s personal Nikkei heritage, this paper will discuss the design of Nami – a custom built gestural controller and its applicability to extend the author’s cultural body through a community-centric case study performance.},
 address = {Birmingham, UK},
 author = {Sithi-Amnuai, Sara},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4813188},
 editor = {Romain Michon and Franziska Schroeder},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {July},
 pages = {559--563},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/QCUGtE_z1LE},
 publisher = {Birmingham City University},
 title = {Exploring Identity Through Design: A Focus on the Cultural Body Via Nami},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper109.pdf},
 year = {2020}
}