RUDIMENTS: Reflective Understanding of Digital Instruments as Musical Entanglements

每年都会产生许多新的数字乐器(DMI)，每一种乐器都编码着明显和微妙的文化价值，反映了其设计者的审美优先事项、其构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预示着机器智能的新领域将被集成到仪器中。音乐机遇是巨大的，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对DMI设计采取了一种对价值敏感的方法，使用嵌入式计算(集成到物理对象中的微型计算机)来支持丰富的感觉体验，而不是分析符号智能。这个跨学科的项目试图调和DMI研究的技术和生态观点，前者侧重于工程技术或演奏者与乐器的互动，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现性，而生态视角为技术专家提供的实际建议寥寥无几。《入门》重温了DMI研究的基本假设，剥离了一层层历史上的技术捷径和音乐理论，回到了音乐现象的基本原理--初级--。该项目提出，仪器根本不应被视为自给自足的技术对象，而应被视为纠缠：人与物之间复杂而不可还原的关系网络。音乐纠缠设计将提供一个深远的新的技术-艺术基础，在此基础上探索嵌入式计算和人工智能的转型潜力，从反思前的感官体验自下而上地构建乐器，并考虑每个设计决策的文化含义。

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.