New Musical Interfaces and New Music-making Paradigms

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  • Sergi Jordà
چکیده

The conception and design of new musical interfaces is a multidisciplinary area that tightly relates technology and artistic creation. In this paper, the author first exposes some of the questions he has posed himself during more than a decade experience as a performer, composer, interface and software designer, and educator. Finally, he illustrates these topics with some examples of his work.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001