The medium is the message: Composing instruments and performing mappings

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 56-59

  Murray Browne, Tim ^a   Mainstone, Di ^a   Bryan Kinns, Nick ^a   Plumbley, Mark D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composed instrument; Constraint; Performance; Transparency

Indexed keywords

MUSIC; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

COMPOSED INSTRUMENTS; CONSTRAINT; CREATIVE WORK; CREATIVES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; PERFORMANCE; WORK OF ART;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 84873694025     PISSN: 22204792     EISSN: 22204806     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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