Presentation for the Cumulus Conference, Milan, June 5th. Residual Orchestras. Notes on low profile, automated sound instruments
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Residual orchestras. Notes on low profile, automated sound instruments
1. Residual
Notes on low pro?le,
automated sound
instruments
orchestras
Andrea Valle
CIRMA - StudiUm - Università di Torino
MACIR
2. Music instrument:
a device capable of
generating sound once a
certain amount of energy
is provided.
->
A converter into acoustic
energy
Residual orchestras:
automated, low cost/
recycled sound/music
instruments
3. Physical computing:
uncouple computation (as a process) from
computers (as objects) by moving the
former into the “real world”.
Features
- beyond “multimedia computer”
- technological reappropriation (DYI)
- heterogeneity (both hw and sw)
4. Punk Munari
1. Banzi: punk attitude in
Arduino, learning by doing
2. Munari: “with a lot of
patience, learning the
technique while I’m working
and without knowing before
what will come out
after” (Codice ovvio)
3. “System-D”: “débrouille-
toi!” (recyclers from Dakar)
5. Values from sustainable design
1. refabrication: shaping and reshaping
the semiotic status of material culture
2. softening: “produced while designed”,
improvisation-like mood, open
3. ?exibility: capability of the residual
orchestras to be modi?ed in relation to
speci?c needs
8. Layers:
I. physical
II. physical computing
III. computational
real-time performance
development flow
strong influence
needed to implement
less needed
II: control
I: objects
III:computer
knowledge
budget