Problematizing Sound Methods Through Music Research-Creation: Oblique Curiosities

Digital curiosities: resource creation via amateur digitization

Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitising holdings to provide online access. Although recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitising our cultural heritage. This paper seeks to scope the ...

Blind Creation: Emerging Music Through Implicit Collaboration

Normally agents cooperate when they have a joint goal or are able to get a higher payoff by doing so. We present a new perspective, where an agent cooperates with another without an explicit intention. We study this perspective in the context of Art Games, by introducing a novel algorithm where a human agent cooperates with a video game system in generating music in an emergent fashion, without...

Vuzik: Music Creation and Comprehension through Painting

Vuzik is an interface designed to empower users to create digital music by painting. Through an intuitive mapping of sound to visuals designed to be simple enough for a child to comprehend, Vuzik uses a music-painting metaphor to enable users to compose and perform music through simple painting gestures, effectively "seeing" their music as they hear it. Our paper presents the design of Vuzik, d...

The Evolution of Ethnographic Research Methods: Curiosities and Contradictions in the Qualitative Research Literature

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi