Tuesday, January 14, 2014

THE TRIANGLE

Well, I don't think this is a typical example of NIME but today's class reminded me of this video and made me want to revisit especially when we talked about intentionality/purpose ( or tennis sonification vs tennis piece @ Belfast)

I think this makes an interesting case regarding design dimensions of performance system that are covered today.

  • I personally think that there's definite intention of "musical expression."  (as opposed to plain juggling balls, or sonifying tennis). 
  • Look how far he can push further with this simple interface. I think there is more room for virtuosity than you thought. 
  • "The physical model" of the interface extremely constrains "temporal dynamics" of sound it can make (well there are a set of rhythmic patterns he can play but nothing much more than that), which naturally makes the system very limited in style/diversity/wall (even though it has a high ceiling.) 

2 comments :

  1. Wow. I've never seen this. I think you're right -- he really has overcome the challenge of intentionality and purpose. It is clear that there is strong musical intent; it isn't just incidental sonification of his actions. I think part of the way he achieves this, however, is because the sounds we here are immediate and proportional consequences of the motion of the balls (and by extension, his actions). By this I mean, there is no abstraction or elaborate *mapping* of the motions to other sounds, because obviously there are no electronics involved.

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  2. I think there's actually a pretty great floor/ceiling thing going on here as well.
    I could easily see myself spending several minutes playing around trying to bounce one ball around the triangle and get different patterns. Then, obviously, as Moschen demonstrates, the ceiling can get quite high when you have juggling/movement/rhythmic skills and flesh out a routine.

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