RUDIMENTS: Reflective Understanding of Digital Instruments as Musical Entanglements

基础：对数字乐器作为音乐纠葛的反思性理解

• 批准号: EP/X023478/1
• 负责人: Andrew McPherson
• 金额: $ 219.57万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX023478%2F1
• 关键词: RUDIMENTS; Reflective; Understanding; Digital; Instruments

Many new digital musical instruments (DMIs) are created every year, each of which encodes cultural values both obvious and subtle, reflecting the aesthetic priorities of its designer, its constituent technologies, and those technologies' domains of origin. Recent developments in high-performance, low-cost embedded computing promise new frontiers in machine intelligence to be integrated into instruments. The musical opportunities are vast, but so are the risks: who will set the agenda for deploying this technology, and whose interests and aesthetics will be represented? RUDIMENTS takes a value-sensitive approach to DMI design, using embedded computing (miniaturised computers integrated into physical objects) to support rich sensory experience rather than analytical symbolic intelligence. This interdisciplinary project seeks to reconcile technical and ecological perspectives of DMI research, the former focused on engineering techniques or performer-instrument interaction, the latter on the interplay of environmental factors which shape musical creation. The technical perspective can prioritise analytical concepts over the inexpressibility of human experience, while the ecological perspective offers few practical suggestions for technologists. RUDIMENTS revisits the foundational assumptions of DMI research, stripping away layers of historical technical shortcuts and music theory to return to the fundamentals -- the rudiments -- of musical phenomena. The project proposes that instruments should not be viewed as self-contained technological objects at all, but as entanglements: complex and irreducible webs of relationships between humans and things. Musical entanglement design will provide a far-reaching new technical-artistic basis on which to explore the transformational potential of embedded computing and artificial intelligence, building instruments bottom-up from pre-reflective sensory experience and considering the cultural implications of every design decision.

每年都有许多新的数字乐器（DMI）被创造出来，每一种都编码了明显和微妙的文化价值，反映了其设计师的美学优先级，其组成技术以及这些技术的起源领域。高性能、低成本嵌入式计算的最新发展为机器智能集成到仪器中提供了新的前沿。音乐的机会是巨大的，但风险也是巨大的：谁将制定部署这项技术的议程，谁的利益和美学将得到代表？RUDIMENTS采用价值敏感的方法来进行智能设计，使用嵌入式计算（集成到物理对象中的嵌入式计算机）来支持丰富的感官体验，而不是分析符号智能。这个跨学科的项目旨在调和技术和生态学的角度，前者侧重于工程技术或演奏者-乐器的相互作用，后者侧重于塑造音乐创作的环境因素的相互作用。技术视角可以优先考虑分析概念，而不是人类经验的不可表达性，而生态视角几乎没有为技术人员提供实用的建议。《雏形》重新审视了音乐研究的基本假设，剥离了历史技术捷径和音乐理论的层次，回到了音乐现象的基本原理--雏形。该项目建议，仪器不应被视为自成一体的技术对象，而应被视为纠缠：人与物之间复杂而不可简化的关系网。音乐纠缠设计将为探索嵌入式计算和人工智能的变革潜力提供一个意义深远的新技术-艺术基础，从预反射感官体验中自下而上构建乐器，并考虑每个设计决策的文化含义。

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2023.2274832
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of New Music Research
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Martinez Avila J

Exploring the Opportunities of Haptic Technology in the Practice of Visually Impaired and Blind Sound Creatives

探索触觉技术在视障和盲人声音创意实践中的机会

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Arts
• 影响因子: 0.5
• 作者: Harrison, J

A review of differentiable digital signal processing for music and speech synthesis

• DOI: 10.3389/frsip.2023.1284100
• 发表时间: 2024-01
• 期刊: Frontiers in Signal Processing
• 作者: B. Hayes;Jordie Shier;Gyorgy Fazekas;Andrew McPherson;C. Saitis

FM Tone Transfer with Envelope Learning

带包络学习的 FM 音调传输

• DOI: 10.1145/3616195.3616196
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Caspe F

Towards Orchestrating Physically Modelled 2D Percussion Instruments

走向编排物理建模的 2D 打击乐器

• DOI: 10.61782/fa.2023.0664
• 发表时间: 2024
• 作者: Wolstanholme L