Musical Instruments in the 21st Century
Musical Instruments in the 21st Century
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21世纪的乐器
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10.1007/978-981-10-2951-6_11
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2017
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Magnusson T
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Magnusson T
本章探讨了声音的视觉表现在音乐软件中的作用。软件设计经常修复旧的技术，如常见的音乐符号，模拟磁带，外部工作室设备，以及应用声学和电子乐器的隐喻。在这种背景下，这里的目的将是研究抽象形状、符号和创新符号可以应用于作曲和现场表演系统的特定模式。考虑到数字系统中声音表现的实际无限可能性-无论是在视觉显示和手势控制器到声音的映射方面-图形设计，符号和性能的概念将在作者创建的四个系统中进行讨论：ixi软件，ixiQuarks， ixi lang和Threnoscope现场编码环境。这些将作为有限系统的例子，框架音乐家的作曲思想，提供音乐可能性的有限调色板。这个软件的共同点是在音乐创作中整体使用视觉元素，同样作为音乐过程的规定性和代表性符号。本章将介绍音乐软件作为一种作曲形式的发展：它是一种与声音和音乐研究齐头并进的实验活动，其中音乐家-程序员必须获得对不同领域的正式理解，而这些领域以前可能是隐性知识。数字系统对源领域的抽象、材料的规范和定义的完整性的需求都是不可避免地需要对源领域有非常强的理解的特征。
This chapter explores the role of visual representation of sound in music software. Software design often remediates older technologies, such as common music notation, the analogue tape, outboard studio equipment, as well as applying metaphors from acoustic and electric instruments. In that context, the aim here will be study particular modes in which abstract shapes, symbols and innovative notations can be applied in systems for composition and live performance. Considering the practically infinite possibilities of representation of sound in digital systems—both in terms of visual display and mapping of gestural controllers to sound—the concepts of graphic design, notation and performance will be discussed in relation to four systems created by the author: ixi software, ixiQuarks, ixi lang, and the Threnoscope live coding environment. These will be presented as examples of limited systems that frame the musician’s compositional thoughts providing a constrained palette of musical possibilities. What this software has in common is the integral use of visual elements in musical composition, equally as prescriptive and representative notation for musical processes. The chapter will present the development of musical software as a form of composition: it is an experimental activity that goes hand in hand with sound and music research, where the musician-programmer has to gain a formal understanding of diverse domains that before might have been tacit knowledge. The digital system’s requirements for abstractions of the source domain, specifications of material, and completeness of definitions are all features that inevitably require a very strong understanding of the source domain.