Words of power: Emerge, a language for the dynamic control of live performance.

The paper describes the key concepts and formal grammatical structures underpinning the design of a domain specific language (DSL) developed for dynamically specifying the logical choice-relationships between events and cues within live performance. A brief survey of existing approaches to describin...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 4; no. 1/2; pp. 67 - 81
Autor principal: Willcock, Ian
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Edinburgh University Press Mar2010
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