New interfaces for musical expression
This work tackles the problem of integrating new technologies into musical expression for composers and performers, but it appears incremental as it focuses on a workshop rather than a novel solution.
The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities in designing new musical interfaces due to rapid technological advancements, aiming to facilitate dialogue between interface experts and musicians.
The rapid evolution of electronics, digital media, advanced materials, and other areas of technology, is opening up unprecedented opportunities for musical interface inventors and designers. The possibilities afforded by these new technologies carry with them the challenges of a complex and often confusing array of choices for musical composers and performers. New musical technologies are at least partly responsible for the current explosion of new musical forms, some of which are controversial and challenge traditional definitions of music. Alternative musical controllers, currently the leading edge of the ongoing dialogue between technology and musical culture, involve many of the issues covered at past CHI meetings. This workshop brings together interface experts interested in musical controllers and musicians and composers involved in the development of new musical interfaces.