Augmented Embodied Performance – Extended Artistic Room, Enacted Teacher, and Humanisation of Technology

Rikard Lindell, and Tomas Kumlin

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

We explore the phenomenology of embodiment based on research through design and reflection on the design of artefacts for augmenting embodied performance. We present three designs for highly trained musicians; the designs rely on the musicians' mastery acquired from years of practice. Through the knowledge of the living body their instruments – saxophone, cello, and flute – are extensions of themselves; thus, we can explore technology with rich nuances and precision in corporeal schemas. With the help of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment we present three hypotheses for augmented embodied performance: the extended artistic room, the interactively enacted teacher, and the humanisation of technology.

Citation

Rikard Lindell, and Tomas Kumlin. 2017. Augmented Embodied Performance – Extended Artistic Room, Enacted Teacher, and Humanisation of Technology. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176177

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{rlindell2017,
 abstract = {We explore the phenomenology of embodiment based on research through design and reflection on the design of artefacts for augmenting embodied performance. We present three designs for highly trained musicians; the designs rely on the musicians' mastery acquired from years of practice. Through the knowledge of the living body their instruments – saxophone, cello, and flute – are extensions of themselves; thus, we can explore technology with rich nuances and precision in corporeal schemas. With the help of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment we present three hypotheses for augmented embodied performance: the extended artistic room, the interactively enacted teacher, and the humanisation of technology.  },
 address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
 author = {Rikard Lindell and Tomas Kumlin},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176177},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {77--82},
 publisher = {Aalborg University Copenhagen},
 title = {Augmented Embodied Performance – Extended Artistic Room, Enacted Teacher, and Humanisation of Technology},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2017/nime2017_paper0016.pdf},
 year = {2017}
}