Residual Notes on low profile, automated sound instruments

orchestras

Andrea ValleCIRMA - StudiUm - Università di Torino

MACIR

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Music instrument:a device capable of generating sound once a certain amount of energy is provided.->A converter into acoustic energy

Residual orchestras: automated, low cost/recycled sound/music instruments

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Physical computing:uncouple computation (as a process) from computers (as objects) by moving the former into the “real world”.

Features- beyond “multimedia computer”- technological reappropriation (DYI)- heterogeneity (both hw and sw)

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Punk Munari

1. Banzi: punk attitude in Arduino, learning by doing

2. Munari: “with a lot of patience, learning the technique while I’m working and without knowing before what will come out after” (Codice ovvio)

3. “System-D”: “débrouille-toi!” (recyclers from Dakar)

Values from sustainable design

1. refabrication: shaping and reshaping the semiotic status of material culture

2. softening: “produced while designed”, improvisation-like mood, open

3. flexibility: capability of the residual orchestras to be modified in relation to specific needs

Interface, IGestural controller

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Interface, II

SuperCollider live coding

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Layers:

I. physicalII. physical computingIII. computational

real-time performance

development flow

strong influence

needed to implement

less needed

II: control

I: objects

III:computer

knowledge

budget

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Machina logotelica

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Trilobiti

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Regnum vegetabile (with Mauro Lanza)

Regnum animale (with Mauro Lanza)

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Regnum vegetabile (with Mauro Lanza)

https://vimeo.com/22671138

Live writing with Rumentarium

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