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}
}