Word und Co. bestimmen weltweit mit, was heute Schreiben heißt. So selbstverständlich Textverarbeitung am Personal Computer inzwischen aber ist, so umwegig gestaltete sich ihre Vorgeschichte, die bislang ein »blinder Fleck« der Medienwissenschaft geblieben ist. Zwar erscheint der PC in seiner Kopplung von Tastatur und Bildschirm als »bessere Schreibmaschine« – doch Computer sind nicht per se We...

The research of musical isomorphism has been around for hundreds of years. Based on the concept of musical isomorphism, designers have created many isomorphic keyboardbased instruments. However, there are two major concerns: first, most instruments afford only a single pattern per interface. Second, because note actuators on isomorphic instruments tend to be small, the hand of the player can bl...

Music transcription is a significant problem in machine perception. The system discussed in this paper, MANA. takes as input either the sound of a recorded performance, or data captured using a musical keyboard. It produces conventional musical notation as output. It has successfully handled pieces ranging from 18th-century piano music to improvisations on conga drums, in the AfroCuban style. T...

Why is a seemingly mundane issue such as airline baggage allowance of great significance in regards to the performance practice of electronic music? This paper discusses how a performance practice has evolved that seeks to question the binary and corporate digital world. New 'instruments' and approaches have emerged that explore 'dirty electronics' and 'punktronics': DIY electronic instruments ...

In this thesis we present history-based collaborative filtering, a novel approach to recommend unfamiliar music to users which them is nevertheless going to suit, in order to broaden theirs horizon of musical familiarity. We refer to people with similar music taste which experienced musical transitions when generating a new recommendation, and show that the results are accurate in terms of musi...

In this paper we present first results on musical instrument classification using an HMM based recognizer. The final goal of our work is to automatically evaluate instruments and to classify them according to their characteristics. The first step in this direction was to train a system that is able to recognize a particular instrument among others of the same kind (e.g. guitars). The recognitio...

Bioluminescence is a two-person improvised performance to be considered for either concert or club performance. The performance is improvised and of variable length, and consists of a vocalist (Lesley Flanigan) and a laptop performer (R. Luke DuBois). All the material generated from the laptop is taken from the vocalist during that performance (no pre-sampling or synthesis) and the laptop perfo...

This article introduces medium-based design—an approach to creating exploratory learning environments using the method of extending a medium. First, the characteristics of exploratory learning environments and medium-based design are described and grounded in related work. Particular attention is given to extending a medium— medium-based design’s core method. Then, the product and process of tw...

This paper provides a rationale for choosing acoustic localisation techniques as an alternative to other principles to provide spatial positions in interactive locative audio applications (ILAA). By comparing positioning technology in existing ILAAs to the expected performance of acoustic positioning systems (APS), we can evaluate if APS would perform equivalently in a particular application. I...

the human being attitudes, customs and their style of life are explained through their musical system design. so far the music is a part of the culture, therefore, to understand a culture one should also consider musical aspect of that culture. the human being attitudes, customs and their style of life are explained through their musical system design. so far the music is a part of the culture,...