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new musical interfaces, new scores?
With all of these new interfaces for musical expression that have been around now, I started taking a peak at the scores the players use in their performance. Whilst I am not personally involved in research in this area, I thought it might be interesting to someone out there who is (plus I’ve not see these images posted before).
If you have seen other examples of scores for alternative musical interfaces, please post a comment with your findings.
Above is a blurry photo I took at the International Computer Music Conference in 2005, showing the score used in a ReacTable performance. If you have never seen the ReacTable before, watch these videos. Each page of the score shows the placement and orientation of the tangible blocks on the playing surface.
Those interested in the ReacTable should read some of their many papers. I’ve been following the project since 2004. The tracking software is the best I know of for table top tangible object tracking using computer vision. Bjork now has the instrument used in her live shows (a small video here). It looks like the fiducial markers on the objects have been changed to give a better indication of their action.
Above is a photo for a performance using Tenori-On from Toshio Iwai. Here is a video demonstrating this instrument if you haven’t seen it. More details.
Tenori-On will be launching in London on 4th September at Phonica Records (the home of the Cybersonica 06 exhibition). Tenori-On has a new home on myspace (and a blog). Here is the first print advertisement for it in Axis magazine.
Want more on musical scores?
The Nime course in ITP and NYU has a lot of blog posts here. Marius also posted this.
Posted on August 1st 2007 under Instruments, Performance, Sound, Tenori-On
