A master thesis from Aalborg University
A digitally controllable analog no-input mixer
Author(s)
Term
4. Term
Education
Publication year
2024
Submitted on
2024-02-11
Abstract
The no-input mixer is an appealing instrument for practicioners seeking a constant negotiation of their musical desires with the instrument’s complex agency and affordances. Offering a simple setup, a re-invention of a traditional instrument, it resignifies an utilitaristic control space to a more obscure and surprising field of exploration, a fertile ground for artistic practices and languages to emerge. This project proposes a new hybrid instrument: an analog no-input mixer embedding a digitally controllable interface, introducing previously impossible interaction and mapping techniques (from storing, recalling, interpolating and sequencing of control points, to semi-automatic audio-driven mapping devices and agents), to evaluate their affordances on musical practices with the instrument and to cultivate the opportunity for novel languages and practices to emerge from them.
Keywords
no-input ; nime ; supercollider ; feedback ; musicking
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