Expanding the Role of the Instrument

Birgitta Cappelen, and Anders-Petter Anderson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The traditional role of the musical instrument is to be the working tool of the professional musician. On the instrument the musician performs music for the audience to listen to. In this paper we present an interactive installation, where we expand the role of the instrument to motivate musicking and cocreation between diverse users. We have made an open installation, where users can perform a variety of actions in several situations. By using the abilities of the computer, we have made an installation, which can be interpreted to have many roles. It can both be an instrument, a co-musician, a communication partner, a toy, a meeting place and an ambient musical landscape. The users can dynamically shift between roles, based on their abilities, knowledge and motivation.

Citation:

Birgitta Cappelen, and Anders-Petter Anderson. 2011. Expanding the Role of the Instrument. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177975

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Cappelen2011,
 abstract = {The traditional role of the musical instrument is to be the working tool of the professional musician. On the instrument the musician performs music for the audience to listen to. In this paper we present an interactive installation, where we expand the role of the instrument to motivate musicking and cocreation between diverse users. We have made an open installation, where users can perform a variety of actions in several situations. By using the abilities of the computer, we have made an installation, which can be interpreted to have many roles. It can both be an instrument, a co-musician, a communication partner, a toy, a meeting place and an ambient musical landscape. The users can dynamically shift between roles, based on their abilities, knowledge and motivation. },
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Cappelen, Birgitta and Anderson, Anders-Petter},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177975},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {design,genre,interaction,interactive installation,music instrument,musicking,narrative,open,role,sound art},
 pages = {511--514},
 title = {Expanding the Role of the Instrument},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_511.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}