What We Do (Differently) Together

Palle Dahlstedt

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

In this performance-lecture, the pianist performs and improvises on (or with) five different interactive algorithms, and simultaneously discusses how it feels playing with them, how their different interactive qualities affect the musical outcome, and what the human-machine situation does to us. It is a statement about the essence of process, the nature of agency, and what different types of algorithms bring to human creative process, told from a situation of being entangled with the algorithms, while trying to make music.

Citation

Palle Dahlstedt. 2025. What We Do (Differently) Together. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17801168 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2025_music_37,
 abstract = {In this performance-lecture, the pianist performs and improvises on (or with) five different interactive algorithms, and simultaneously discusses how it feels playing with them, how their different interactive qualities affect the musical outcome, and what the human-machine situation does to us. It is a statement about the essence of process, the nature of agency, and what different types of algorithms bring to human creative process, told from a situation of being entangled with the algorithms, while trying to make music.},
 address = {Canberra, Australia},
 articleno = {37},
 author = {Palle Dahlstedt},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17801168},
 editor = {Sophie Rose and Jos Mulder and Nicole Carroll},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 note = {Live Performance},
 numpages = {2},
 pages = {145--146},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/4Z6bO1s3Mu8?si=EbchJ8rl_Yx0MqO4},
 title = {What We Do (Differently) Together},
 track = {Music},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_music_37.pdf},
 urlsuppl1 = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2025/nime2025_music_37_file01.mp4},
 year = {2025}
}