Presentation at NIME 2024
Written on September 6th, 2024 by AH
Tim-Tarek Grund presented our paper “Challenges and Prospects in Remote Cross-cultural Musical Interface Design” at the New Interfaces for Musical Expressions (NIME) 2024 conference in Utrecht at the HKU.
Title: “Challenges and Prospects in Remote Cross-cultural Musical Interface Design”
Authors: Tim-Tarek Grund (mdw–Universität für Music und darstellende Kunst Wien), Huệ Trinh Lương (Independent artist), Alex Hofmann (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Abstract:
Roles in the context of live-electronic music performance are often overlapping. We used a cross-cultural collaboration between a Vietnamese live-electronic composer-performer and a German instrument maker to study the development of roles. We followed the approach of building a digital music instrument inspired by existing acoustic instruments and conducted a case study with the task of developing a granular effect sample player, the Grain Bau, inspired by the Vietnamese monochord zither đàn Bầu. We analysed the milestones, tasks and remote collaboration strategies and assessed the depth of participation. We found that in-person collaborative work tended to dissolve role definitions, while remote working emphasised them. We examine our strategies for remote working and discuss the influence of gender on our role development.
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