A Study of Two Thereminists : Towards Movement Informed Instrument Design

Nicholas Ward, Kedzie Penfield, Sile O'Modhrain, and Benjamin Knapp

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents a comparison of the movement styles of two theremin players based on observation and analysis of video recordings. The premise behind this research is that a consideration of musicians' movements could form the basis for a new framework for the design of new instruments. Laban Movement Analysis is used to qualitatively analyse the movement styles of the musicians and to argue that the Recuperation phase of their phrasing is essential to achieve satisfactory performance.

Citation:

Nicholas Ward, Kedzie Penfield, Sile O'Modhrain, and Benjamin Knapp. 2008. A Study of Two Thereminists : Towards Movement Informed Instrument Design. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179649

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Ward2008,
 abstract = {This paper presents a comparison of the movement styles of two theremin players based on observation and analysis of video recordings. The premise behind this research is that a consideration of musicians' movements could form the basis for a new framework for the design of new instruments. Laban Movement Analysis is used to qualitatively analyse the movement styles of the musicians and to argue that the Recuperation phase of their phrasing is essential to achieve satisfactory performance. },
 address = {Genoa, Italy},
 author = {Ward, Nicholas and Penfield, Kedzie and O'Modhrain, Sile and Knapp, Benjamin},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179649},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Effort Phrasing, Recuperation, Laban Movement Analysis, Theremin },
 pages = {117--121},
 title = {A Study of Two Thereminists : Towards Movement Informed Instrument Design},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_117.pdf},
 year = {2008}
}