Click::RAND. A Minimalist Sound Sculpture.

Paul Dunham

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Discovering outmoded or obsolete technologies and appropriating them in creative practice can uncover new relationships between those technologies. Using a media archaeological research approach, this paper presents the electromechanical relay and a book of random numbers as related forms of obsolete media. Situated within the context of electromechanical sound art, the work uses a non-deterministic approach to explore the non-linear and unpredictable agency and materiality of the objects in the work. Developed by the first author, Click::RAND is an object-based sound installation. The work has been developed as an audio-visual representation of a genealogy of connections between these two forms of media in the history of computing.

Citation:

Paul Dunham. 2020. Click::RAND. A Minimalist Sound Sculpture.. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4813276

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME20_27,
 abstract = {Discovering outmoded or obsolete technologies and appropriating them in creative practice can uncover new relationships between those technologies. Using a media archaeological research approach, this paper presents the electromechanical relay and a book of random numbers as related forms of obsolete media. Situated within the context of electromechanical sound art, the work uses a non-deterministic approach to explore the non-linear and unpredictable agency and materiality of the objects in the work. Developed by the first author, Click::RAND is an object-based sound installation. The work has been developed as an audio-visual representation of a genealogy of connections between these two forms of media in the history of computing.},
 address = {Birmingham, UK},
 author = {Dunham, Paul},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4813276},
 editor = {Romain Michon and Franziska Schroeder},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {July},
 pages = {139--142},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/vWKw8H0F9cI},
 publisher = {Birmingham City University},
 title = {Click::RAND. A Minimalist Sound Sculpture.},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper27.pdf},
 year = {2020}
}