Don’t Touch My MIDI Cables: Gender, Technology and Sound in Live Coding

Microbes, cables, and an electrical touch.

In nature, highly efficient and diverse consortia of microbes cycle carbon and other elements while generating energy for growth. Driving these reactions are organisms with the ability to extract electrons from the chemical substrates and transfer them to insoluble and soluble electron acceptors. One bacterial group in particular, Geobacter spp., can couple their respiratory metabolism to the r...

Running head: SOUND AND TOUCH

This Chapter tries to explain that sound depends on colliding matter and can be described in terms of frequency and amplitude. It explains how antisound can be used to create silence, what echolocation is, and that the human perception of sound is logarithmic. Medical and military applications and home entertainment are discussed as an illustration. Then we turn to music, discuss what music sca...

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Multi-Touch Interfaces for Phantom Source Positioning in Live Sound Diffusion

This paper presents a new technique for interface-driven diffusion performance. Details outlining the development of a new tabletop surface-based performance interface, named tactile.space, are discussed. User interface and amplitude panning processes employed in the creation of tactile.space are focused upon, and are followed by a user study-based evaluation of the interface. It is hoped that ...

Object coding of music using expressive MIDI

Structured audio uses a high level representation of a signal to produce audio output. When it was first introduced in 1998, creating a structured audio representation from an audio signal was beyond the state-of-the-art. Inspired by object coding and structured audio, we present a system to reproduce audio using Expressive MIDI, high-level parameters being used to represent pitch expression fr...