2014, Gina Emerson
The term ‘experimental’ appears frequently in new music discourse but is rarely clearly defined. Applied to the practice of designing contemporary musical instruments, experimentalism can be seen to manifest itself in two central ways:
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2014, Till Bovermann
What are important factors of musical instruments? By taking the extreme positions of spectators as well as professionals of related disciplines, a variety of (contradicting) aspects emerge. This list is not meant to be complete, but rather serves as a starting point to which other aspects might be added over time: Continue reading
2014, Till Bovermann
Scriptability adds flexibility to instruments because it not only allows to define and alter the mapping between two instrument components on the fly but also enables to define and redefine the components themselves. This especially includes just-in-time adjustments of digital signal processing parts (see also Rohrhuber2008JustInTime). Continue reading
Almanac on contemporary instruments 