Musicking with dynamical systems: Introducing a digitally-controlled analog no-input mixer

Gianluca Elia; Dan Overholt

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Musicking with dynamical systems: Introducing a digitally-controlled analog no-input mixer

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The no-input mixer is an appealing instrument for practitioners 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. In the context of musicking with feedback instruments, i.e. their design, performance and experimentation, this project proposes a new hybrid device: 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference : Explorations in Sonic Cultures
Editors	Luca Andrea Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro
Number of pages	15
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	18 Sept 2024
Pages	22-36
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400709685
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678302
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2024
Event	19th International Audio Mostly Conference, Audio Mostly 2024 - Milan, Italy Duration: 18 Sept 2024 → 20 Sept 2024

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Conference	19th International Audio Mostly Conference, Audio Mostly 2024
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	18/09/2024 → 20/09/2024
Sponsor	AudioModeling, Orastron

Series	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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digital control
hybrid instrument
no-input mixer
self-resonating vibrotactile instrument

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Elia, Gianluca ; Overholt, Dan. / Musicking with dynamical systems : Introducing a digitally-controlled analog no-input mixer. Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures. editor / Luca Andrea Ludovico ; Davide Andrea Mauro. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024. pp. 22-36 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Elia, G & Overholt, D 2024, Musicking with dynamical systems: Introducing a digitally-controlled analog no-input mixer. in LA Ludovico & DA Mauro (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 22-36, 19th International Audio Mostly Conference, Audio Mostly 2024, Milan, Italy, 18/09/2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678302

Musicking with dynamical systems: Introducing a digitally-controlled analog no-input mixer. / Elia, Gianluca; Overholt, Dan.
Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures. ed. / Luca Andrea Ludovico; Davide Andrea Mauro. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024. p. 22-36 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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