(Dis)Embodied mechatronic displays for telematic music performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14872018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Gurevich (0000-0003-1529-4876, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Luke Dahl (University of Virginia), John Granzow (University of Michigan), Adam G Schmidt (University of Michigan), Matias A Vilaplana Stark (University of Virginia) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 93-109 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of New Music Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-8215 • E-ISSN: 1744-5027 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09298215.2024.2442357 |
| OpenAlex | W4405735082 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Telematic music performance leverages telecommunications technologies, allowing performers to collaborate remotely through dedicated software architectures for low latency audio transmission. Our research advances telematic music through the integration of a mechatronic display to function as a physical proxy for musicians’ bodies in remote locations. We sense, encode, transmit, and display movement features of instrumentalists performing together in disparate geographical locations using 3-dimensional actuated displays. Chamber musicians, who often rely on a variety of bodily movements to coordinate their performance and evoke meanings for audiences, collaborated in the development of the system. We propose a framework of ‘essential tensions’ as a means of generating understandings of the features of a novel artistic-technical system in the context of practice-based research. The process of developing and producing a telematic performance has shed light on musicians’ ability to form fluid and flexible relationships with mechatronic systems, which can be considered on a continuum between passive kinetic sculptures and embodied robotic avatars. This process has prompted intriguing questions about the various roles of gesture in musical communication, and the degrees of agency, autonomy, and anthropomorphism we ascribe to materially embodied representations of ourselves and others
Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Human–computer interaction · Mechatronics · Multimedia · Telecommunications · Telematics · Computer Science · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Interactive and Immersive Displays · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Ways of Listening
Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis
Electronic Midwifery
Displaced Soundscapes
Critical Issues in Electronic Media
The Essential Tension
Telematic music transmission, resistance and touch
Design
The Design Tensions Framework
Tele-Improvisation
The benefit of being physically present
Split Subjects, Not Atoms; or, How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis
Understanding media
JackTrip
Network Musics
In Dialogue with `Posthuman' Bodies
The Perception of the Environment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |