In this paper we discuss the beneficial aspects of incorporating energy-motion models as a design pattern in musical interface design. These models can be understood as archetypes of motion trajectories which are […]

This paper presents WELLE, a web-based music environment for blind people, and describes its development, design, notation syntax and first experiences. WELLE is intended to serve as a collaborative, performative and educational […]

The way we perceive music, interact with musical instruments and produce music has changed. Based on new digital technologies and electronic and scientific concepts, musical instruments today differ fundamentally from traditional acoustic […]

In our oral presentation we would like to present and discuss the methods and current results of our artistic research project “embodied gestures”. Our goal was the development of a new paradigm […]

DIY Bionoise (2018) is an instrument in which the performer can generate sound and noise, deriving from their own body. It contains a circuit that can measure the bioelectricity from living beings […]

This paper presents an ongoing process of examining and reinventing the traditional string instrument Guqin, to forge a contemporary engagement with this unique Chinese musical instrument. The SlowQin is both a hybrid […]

This paper reports on a workshop where participants produced physical mock-ups of musical interfaces directly after miming control of short electro-acoustic music pieces. Our goal was understanding how people envision and materialize […]

 This thesis investigates the artistic and philosophical consequences of understanding musical instruments as artifacts embodying a score. In other words, it explores the extent to which musical instruments can be perceived as […]