COMP4350/8350#
Sound and Music Computing
Performing Computer Music#
Dr Charles Martin
Computer music setups I have known#
Not sure if meme or serious lecture (?)
What are the ways of performing computer music.
Here’s a list of different modalities I have noticed over time.
The Big Screen#
these performers want the audience to see what they see and they want it to be big.
the human may not be important here, but the visuals are an integral part of the show.
Last Man to Die: C Martin, H Cormick, B Forster (2010)#
‘it’s almost a song…’ For Brain-Player and Clarinet NIME2013#
Whistle Interface NIME2013 (Roberto Morales)#
Strike on Stage: Charles Martin and Chi Hsia Lai NIME2010#
Touch Interface: Charles Martin (2010)#
The Construction#
the instrument is the performance
these musicians are taking a back seat to systems that play themselves, feed back, sense the world, or diffuse sound in different ways.
they might use light, new materials, custom electronics, to make their statement.
5th Volt, Smith’s Alternative, 2022#
DIADs - The Ford Transit…, Oliver Bown, NIME2016#
Steam Synth, Steve Harhai, NIME2019#
Sabina Hyoju Ahn: Breath, NIME2017#
Marije Baalman: Chrysalis, NIME2017#
Dianne Verdonk: Bellyhorn, NIME2017#
Face to Face#
when it’s time to make serious music you have to face your band
this is about no-distraction serious music making
we’re not playing to the audience, but they get to look over our shoulder
ANU EMS 2016#
Charles Martin + Chi Hsia Lai, 2009#
ANU LENS 2022#
Ensemble Metatone, 2013#
RPi, Charles Martin + Paul Heslin, 2016#
Spider, EMS Workshop, ANU 2015#
Wires on the Floor#
no table can hold our brilliance
these performances are all about getting maximum equipment and minimum complications
carpark concert, Michael Norris, You Are Here, Canberra, 2016#
noise, 107 projects, Sydney, 2015#
experimental music studio, ANU, 2014#
Andrea Mancianti and Roberto Pugliese: Uroboro, NIME2017#
Headgear#
these performance want to be a cyber person; or maybe they are a cyber person!
VR, AR, XR, etc. reality is not enough for these folks!
their motto: maybe this year is when VR will go mainstream!
headgear also includes other head-mounted musical modalities…
Cubing Sound, Yichen Wang NIME2022#
Listening to Listening NIME2020#
AR performance ACMC2019#
Forgetfulness: Zachary Duer, Ivica Ico Bukvic & Meaghan Dee, NIME2018#
PHOX Ears: Rebecca Kleinberger NIME2015#
Focal: Stewart Greenhill and Cathie Travers NIME2016#
Circles: Barry Moon, NIME2018#
HyperInstruments#
computer and acoustic instrument in one convenient package.
hyperinstrumentalists have invested a lifetime of practice into their instrument and they’re not giving it up now
they load their instrument with sensors, microphones, noise makers, screens, lights, etc
they follow hundreds of years of tradition with new techniques and a brand new sound
Extended Clarinet NIME2016, Carl Robert Normark, Robert Ek#
BladeAxe Romain Michon NIME2016#
Piano with Objects NIME2016#
Feedback Cellos (Alice Eldrige and Chris Kiefer) NIME2017#
Hybrid Violin, Laurel Pardue NIME2019#
Extended Vibraphone, Charles Martin, NIME2013#
Semicircle#
the desk semicircle represents control, confidence and conservatism
these musicians know their tools and know they need them within reach at all times
this performance is about software and communication
the real world bows to the dominance of their soundworld and the metaverse beyond
ANU Laptop Ensemble 2019#
ANU Laptop Ensemble 2022#
Ensemble Metatone 2014#
Vox Tactum Meets Chorus Digitalis: Seven Years of Singing Surfaces NIME2013#
Ensemble Feedback Instruments: Muhammad Hafiz Wan Rosli NIME2015#
Unplugged#
unplugged computer musicians play as a group, but away from their computers
they use mobile devices, smartphones, microcontrollers and wireless sensors
without desks, there’s no barrier to interaction
they’re the modern string quartet or chamber music ensemble, ready to blow an audience away with their feats of connected musicality
Stillness Under Tension, 2017#
ANU LENS 2022#
Ensemble Metatone, ICAD2016#
Stanford MoPhO (Mobile Phone Orchestra) NIME2010#
Mozartkebap: Nick Acorne and Takuto Fukuda NIME2018#
Virtuoso#
just a musician, the stage, and their adoring crowd
the virtuoso creates their own instrument with sensors and their bodily gestures
they minimise the computer in their setup (it’s not about the computer)
they’re this generations concert pianist or solo violinist
Still Life, D Andrew Stewart, NIME2013#
Atau Tanaka, NIME2010#
Synaesthetic: Christina Hopgood, Charles Martin, Gisli Gretarsson 2017#
The Shells, Alex Nowitz, NIME2011#
Ominous, incarnated sound sculpture for Xth Sense: Marco Donnarumma, NIME2013#
Ritual, Wayne Siegel, NIME2017#
Ideas#
How do these modalities connect with your final performance ideas?
Which ones match up with the music you might like to make?
Which ones do you think are just bad.
What more do you need to know to create your dream performance?