Pythagorean Domino

Ana Dall'Ara-Majek, and Takuto Fukuda

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2019
• Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Pages: 39–42
• PDF link

Abstract:

Pythagorean Domino is an improvisatory composition composed in 2019 for an augmented Theremin and a gyro-based gestural controller. This work aims to integrate music concrete techniques and an algorithmic compositional approach in the context of composition for gestural controllers. While music concrete compositional practice brings out the concept of “composite object”—a sound object made up of several distinct and successive elements [1]—in the piece, our algorithmic compositional approach delivers an interpolation technique which entails gradual transformations of the composite objects over time. Our challenge is to perform a chain of short fragmental elements in tandem in the way to form a single musical unit, while the algorithms for transformation are autonomously changing synthetic and control parameter settings. This approach derives closely interconnected triangular interactions between two performers and a computer.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{nime19-music-DallAra-Majek,
 abstract = {Pythagorean Domino is an improvisatory composition composed in 2019 for an augmented Theremin and a gyro-based gestural controller. This work aims to integrate music concrete techniques and an algorithmic compositional approach in the context of composition for gestural controllers. While music concrete compositional practice brings out the concept of “composite object”—a sound object made up of several distinct and successive elements [1]—in the piece, our algorithmic compositional approach delivers an interpolation technique which entails gradual transformations of the composite objects over time. Our challenge is to perform a chain of short fragmental elements in tandem in the way to form a single musical unit, while the algorithms for transformation are autonomously changing synthetic and control parameter settings. This approach derives closely interconnected triangular interactions between two performers and a computer.},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {Ana Dall'Ara-Majek and Takuto Fukuda},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 editor = {Federico Visi},
 month = {June},
 pages = {39--42},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {Pythagorean Domino},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_music010.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}