Change Over Time: Responsibility and Power in the Midst of Catastrophe.
After outlining a background of catastrophe theory and its links to musical composition, the author presents a manifestation of those links in the form of a "catastrophe machine" - an interactive musical system in which abrupt changes in computer-generated sound processing are dependent upon perform...
| Published in: | Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 95 - 102 |
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MIT Press
Dec1999
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| Summary: | After outlining a background of catastrophe theory and its links to musical composition, the author presents a manifestation of those links in the form of a "catastrophe machine" - an interactive musical system in which abrupt changes in computer-generated sound processing are dependent upon performers' sensitive control of acoustic instruments. She then discusses notions of power and responsibility as they stem from a specific realization of this system, Berubah. |
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