Interactive
Systems and
Instrument Design in Music
Details
Working Group Proposal
We propose
the organization of a Working Group on Interactive Systems and Instrument
Design within the ICMA
in collaboration with EMF.
Goals
Our ultimate goal is to
enhance and extend possibilities for human creativity in music and the
arts.
Our immediate goal is
to create a knowledge base and to formulate a body of generally
accepted principles and theories relating to the potential issues
in designing and performing with interactive systems and new musical
and multimedia instruments based in electronics.
Structure
An inital core group of
researchers, scientists, and artists will coordinate and maintain lines
of communication between those people working on relevant projects, encourage
collaboration, and create opportunities for dissemination of the results
of contributory work.
We foresee this group
growing, with sub-groups led by different researchers created in specific
areas.
First
Tasks
Identify, evaluate, document,
and create links to applicable work already done in interaction and performance,
sensors and actuators, interface design, systems analysis, and software
design. The specific result of this task will be a general bibliography
and references to on-line resources available through an website maintained
by EMF.
Create communication links
between individuals and groups currently doing work in relevant areas,
including research performed within parallel non-artistic societies. The
primary goal of this task is to coordinate and document studies and artistic
experiments by scientists, scholars and artists throughout the world in
human/computer interaction in the context of computer music performance.
The specific result of this task will be the creation of email lists and
websites that will serve as normal lines of communication between participants
and groups of participants in the project.
Define specific projects
that will serve as artistic experiments.
Formulate reports, encourage
the writing of articles and papers, and organize conferences and meetings
to share and evaluate the results of work done. Presentations will be made
at special sessions of the annual ICMC.