Designing Mappings for the Sponge: Towards Spongistic Music

This paper reviews the evolution of the mapping strategies used for a cushion-like musical interface called the sponge. It describes how suggestions from the literature were concretely implemented and used in performance, offering a concrete example of a composer’s approach to mapping. It also provides an example of a real world situation where no single strategy constituted a solution to the issue of mapping. It concludes that musical composition requires the use of a multitude of mapping strategies in parallel.