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Approaches to creating interactivated spaces, from intimate to inhabited interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2003

Yolande Harris
Affiliation:
Metronom Electronic Arts Studio, Fundacio Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporani, Carrer de Fusina 9, 08003, Barcelona, Spain E-mail: yolandeh@terra.es
Bert Bongers
Affiliation:
Metronom Electronic Arts Studio, Fundacio Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporani, Carrer de Fusina 9, 08003, Barcelona, Spain E-mail: bertbon@xs4all.nl

Abstract

In contemporary music and arts practices the previously distinct roles of author, composer and performer have become increasingly conflated, catalysed by the use of computer technology. Newly combined roles of composer and performer that are assumed by one or more people or computer systems are identified and described, as well as actions including preparation, organisation and presentation. In this paper the interface is described as an ‘interactivated space’ to encompass both the intimate scale of a performer manipulating the materials through an on-body interface, and the larger in-space interface where the work is shared with the performers and audience. Two examples of projects the authors are involved in are described, which form the basis for further discussion. The two interfaces that manifest themselves in the processes, the instrument and the score are discussed in more detail with a focus on their changed appearance and role.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Inside-Out. Composition, design and Video-Organ performance by Yolande Harris and Bert Bongers. Rebellious Flute performed live by Yolande Harris at Nau Coclea, Camallera, Girona, Spain. Commissioned by Clara Gari, Nau Coclea Summer Experimental Music Festival, July 2002. Video excerpt editing by Yolande Harris and Bert Bongers illustating paper entitled: Approaches to creating interactivated spaces,from intimate to inhabited interfaces.

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