Thor Magnusson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2787829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thor Magnusson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thor |
| FAMILY NAME | Magnusson |
| SIGNATURE | MAGNUSSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3731-0630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Live Coding
Curating experience
This conversation between Thor Magnusson and Claudia Molitor introduces the idea of composition as cultural technology, where compositions are understood as systems that create spaces within which ‘things’ can occur and can be explored. In this conception of composition, the composer becomes the curator of an experience for an audience, shifting the focus of the work on the encounter of the audience. Talking about some of Molitor’s pieces from th…
The migration of musical instruments
Music technologies reflect the most advanced human technologies in most historical periods. Examples range from 40 thousand years old bone flutes found in caves in the Swabian Jura, through ancient Greek water organs or medieval Arabic musical automata, to today's electronic and digital instruments with deep learning. Music technologies incorporate the musical ideas of a time and place and they disseminate those ideas when adopted by other musica…
Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instruments
This special issue, arising from a symposium in Helsinki in 2019, presents contributions from a diverse group of practitioners, representing a broad range of approaches in the making, thinking and writing about digital musical instruments. The authors consider the socio-cultural role of technology in current and emerging digital music practices with changing social roles, historical and critical reflections. This introduction explains the context…
Echoes of other worlds
There is an open season for VR sound. Echoes of Other Worlds ends with a section with this title, and its author, Tom Garner, is right in pointing to the innumerable interdisciplinary possibilities represented by sound in virtual reality. The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Sound, an excellent series with a unique take on the vibrant research field of sound studies. Edited by Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, the series attempts to understand the re…
Musical Organics
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of new musical technologies is fraught with difficulties. The digital materials from which they are formed are of such diverse origins and nature, that they do not match traditional organological classifications. This article traces the history of musical instrument classifications relevant to the understanding of new instruments, and proposes an alternative approach to the centuries-old tree-structure of dow…
Writing with shaky hands
I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are i
Algorithms as Scores
The author discusses live coding as a new path in the evolution of the musical score. Live-coding practice accentuates the score, and whilst it is the perfect vehicle for the performance of algorithmic music it also transforms the compositional process itself into a live event. As a continuation of 20th-century artistic developments of the musical score, live-coding systems often embrace graphical elements and language syntaxes foreign to standar…
Thor Magnusson and Rúnar Magnússon
December 01 2008 Thor Magnusson and Rúnar Magnússon: giooia—a variation of SameSameButDifferent v.02—Iceland Thor Magnusson, Thor Magnusson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Rúnar Magnússon Rúnar Magnússon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Thor Magnusson Rúnar Magnússon Online Issn: 1531-4812 Print Issn: 0961-1215 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Tec…
Musical Organics
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of new musical technologies is fraught with difficulties. The digital materials from which they are formed are of such diverse origins and nature, that they do not match traditional organological classifications. This article traces the history of musical instrument classifications relevant to the understanding of new instruments, and proposes an alternative approach to the centuries-old tree-structure of dow…
The migration of musical instruments
Music technologies reflect the most advanced human technologies in most historical periods. Examples range from 40 thousand years old bone flutes found in caves in the Swabian Jura, through ancient Greek water organs or medieval Arabic musical automata, to today's electronic and digital instruments with deep learning. Music technologies incorporate the musical ideas of a time and place and they disseminate those ideas when adopted by other musica…
Thor Magnusson and Rúnar Magnússon
December 01 2008 Thor Magnusson and Rúnar Magnússon: giooia—a variation of SameSameButDifferent v.02—Iceland Thor Magnusson, Thor Magnusson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Rúnar Magnússon Rúnar Magnússon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Thor Magnusson Rúnar Magnússon Online Issn: 1531-4812 Print Issn: 0961-1215 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Tec…
Algorithms as Scores
The author discusses live coding as a new path in the evolution of the musical score. Live-coding practice accentuates the score, and whilst it is the perfect vehicle for the performance of algorithmic music it also transforms the compositional process itself into a live event. As a continuation of 20th-century artistic developments of the musical score, live-coding systems often embrace graphical elements and language syntaxes foreign to standar…
Writing with shaky hands
I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are i
Musical Organics
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of new musical technologies is fraught with difficulties. The digital materials from which they are formed are of such diverse origins and nature, that they do not match traditional organological classifications. This article traces the history of musical instrument classifications relevant to the understanding of new instruments, and proposes an alternative approach to the centuries-old tree-structure of dow…
Echoes of other worlds
There is an open season for VR sound. Echoes of Other Worlds ends with a section with this title, and its author, Tom Garner, is right in pointing to the innumerable interdisciplinary possibilities represented by sound in virtual reality. The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Sound, an excellent series with a unique take on the vibrant research field of sound studies. Edited by Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, the series attempts to understand the re…
Curating experience
This conversation between Thor Magnusson and Claudia Molitor introduces the idea of composition as cultural technology, where compositions are understood as systems that create spaces within which ‘things’ can occur and can be explored. In this conception of composition, the composer becomes the curator of an experience for an audience, shifting the focus of the work on the encounter of the audience. Talking about some of Molitor’s pieces from th…
The migration of musical instruments
Music technologies reflect the most advanced human technologies in most historical periods. Examples range from 40 thousand years old bone flutes found in caves in the Swabian Jura, through ancient Greek water organs or medieval Arabic musical automata, to today's electronic and digital instruments with deep learning. Music technologies incorporate the musical ideas of a time and place and they disseminate those ideas when adopted by other musica…
Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instruments
This special issue, arising from a symposium in Helsinki in 2019, presents contributions from a diverse group of practitioners, representing a broad range of approaches in the making, thinking and writing about digital musical instruments. The authors consider the socio-cultural role of technology in current and emerging digital music practices with changing social roles, historical and critical reflections. This introduction explains the context…
Live Coding
Computer Science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (7 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Musical (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Data science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)