Exploring radically new
modes of musical interaction in live performance
Øyvind Brandtsegg, Trond
Engum (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
The
project explores cross-adaptive processing as a drastic intervention in the
modes of communication between performing musicians. Digital audio analysis and
processing techniques are used to enable features of one sound to inform the
processing of another. This allows the actions of one performer to directly influence
another performer’s sound, and doing so only by means of the acoustic signal
produced by normal musical expression on the instrument. To enable the cross
adaptive processing methods, a number of software tools for this kind of
musical performance will be developed. Sessions documentation,
reflections, software and other material will be available as posts to the
project blog.
The
project is run by the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Music
Technology, Trondheim. We are proud to collaborate with our strong partners at De
Montfort University, Maynooth University, Queen Mary University of London and
University of California San Diego. Our project is strongly based in
practical experimentation with said techniques, and for this we rely on
collaboration with a range of finely selected performers. Project leader
is professor Øyvind Brandtsegg. [SE - 24.05]
