[ISEA2015] Paper: Diana Cardoso & Paulo Ferreira-Lopes – DMIs AMONG THE OTHERS: Live at the concert hall

Abstract (Short paper)

Keywords: DMI’s, Families of Instruments, New Models of Musical Composition, New Sounds, Hybrid Projects, Musical Performance

In this paper we propose ways to promote the use of specific Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs)1 in live performance situations. Some of these instruments (DMIs) are usually conceived as personal objects, adapted to precisely instrumental techniques or as expositive artwork such as sound and multimedia installations. To make this possible, it is necessary that composition paradigms includes, from the very beginning, integration strategies of DMIs together with traditional instruments and groups (ensembles, orchestras, etc.). The regular presence of DMIs on stage with traditional musical instruments, could lead to new aesthetical dimensions of music and a new compositional and performance paradigms in the framework of contemporary music. The emergence of these instruments and their integration with traditional instruments in musical contexts, will also lead to new dimensions of DMIs design. Our research in the framework of DMIs prototypes is strongly concerned by all these premises and we hope to contribute to the development of new compositional paradigms and some instrumental techniques. This paper presents our vision concerning the DMIs and their role in the musical environment and in musical history.

  • Diana Cardoso (b. 1983) is a PhD candidate at the School of the Arts, Portuguese Catholic University (Oporto, Portugal) having Professor Paulo Ferreira-Lopes as supervisor, and Doctoral Researcher of CITAR (Research Center for Science and Technology in Art) granted with a PhD Scholarship from FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology). Currently she is an Artist in Residence at ZKM (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, DE). In 2013, she was a Research Trainee in IDMIL (Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory) at McGill University (CA) under the supervision of Professor Marcelo Wanderley.
  • Paulo Ferreira-Lopes is Professor at the School of the Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University. Invited Professor at the Music Informatics Department of the Karlsruhe University of Music (Germany). Founder and former Director of the Research Center for Science and Technology in Art (CITAR) in Porto, of the Electronic Music Studio C.C.I.M. in Lisbon, and of the Summer Workshops “OlhAres de Outono” in Porto. He was artist-in-residence and researcher at the ZKM Karlsruhe, and his works have been performed by renowned Ensembles at numerous International Festivals. He studied composition in Paris (1995-1997) with Emmanuel Nunes, Antoine Bonnet and Computer Music with Curtis Roads. And in 1996 studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the “Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik”, Darmstadt (DE).

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