This paper explores some of the changed relationships between body and environment that occur when instruments are augmented by electronic or digital circuits. Taking Gregory Bateson’s theorisation of the schizophrenic body (1973) as its starting point, the paper explores situations in which the relationship between the performer, body, and instrument takes on increasingly separate communicational modes, in which the body and its meanings come to resemble the ‘unlabelled metaphor’ of the schizophrenic. A series of instrument/personas are brought before us, representing both the ‘norm’ of acoustic instrumental performances and the extreme limits of instrumental identity, offering critical insight into the space that augmented instruments occ...
Human society has built itself over the years. Social models have been transformed with each new rev...
Les moyens technologiques de la musique électronique reconfigurent les pratiques musicales. Du fait ...
This speculative paper proposes a terminology of ergomimesis for engaging with the way new musical i...
This paper explores some of the changed relationships between body and environment that occur when i...
The interaction between musicians has been one of the traditional strengths of music: it stretches t...
The development of recording technologies, audio manipulation techniques, and sound synthesis opened...
Partly auto-ethnography, partly explanatory research, and partly an exercise in nontypical academic ...
This article corresponds to a conference that took place in 2006 at the Visiones Sonoras Internation...
The body exists in space and time. It moves through cultural spaces and temporal rhythms. In the com...
In this article, a reflection on the limits of the staff in the representation of organized sound is...
When considering the prospective relationships between music and evolutionary thinking, it is necess...
How to define the relationship of human bodies, sound and technological instruments in musical perfo...
In this article, I discuss how two Spanish cyberpunk films, Eva and Autómata, imagine cyborgs and re...
This article originated from a conversation between John Richards and Tim Shaw. The conversation is ...
This chapter explores the possibility of thinking of the human body as musical instrument. It builds...
Human society has built itself over the years. Social models have been transformed with each new rev...
Les moyens technologiques de la musique électronique reconfigurent les pratiques musicales. Du fait ...
This speculative paper proposes a terminology of ergomimesis for engaging with the way new musical i...
This paper explores some of the changed relationships between body and environment that occur when i...
The interaction between musicians has been one of the traditional strengths of music: it stretches t...
The development of recording technologies, audio manipulation techniques, and sound synthesis opened...
Partly auto-ethnography, partly explanatory research, and partly an exercise in nontypical academic ...
This article corresponds to a conference that took place in 2006 at the Visiones Sonoras Internation...
The body exists in space and time. It moves through cultural spaces and temporal rhythms. In the com...
In this article, a reflection on the limits of the staff in the representation of organized sound is...
When considering the prospective relationships between music and evolutionary thinking, it is necess...
How to define the relationship of human bodies, sound and technological instruments in musical perfo...
In this article, I discuss how two Spanish cyberpunk films, Eva and Autómata, imagine cyborgs and re...
This article originated from a conversation between John Richards and Tim Shaw. The conversation is ...
This chapter explores the possibility of thinking of the human body as musical instrument. It builds...
Human society has built itself over the years. Social models have been transformed with each new rev...
Les moyens technologiques de la musique électronique reconfigurent les pratiques musicales. Du fait ...
This speculative paper proposes a terminology of ergomimesis for engaging with the way new musical i...