MULTICOMPONENT: The Feral Cello - a novel, actuated feedback, performance system, driven by machine listening. This submission has multiple-components which are elaborated on in the contextual information, including: Video documentation of the artefact; Conference paper 1: detailing its technical construction and design philosophy & Conference paper 2: Outlining reflections on the collaborative process of making and performing with the system.
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 330309
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- NosieFloor, Staffordshire University
- Open access status
- -
- Month of production
- May
- Year of production
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Feral Cello is submitted as a multi-component output consisting of an artefact, the Feral Cello performance system and two conference articles that explore a philosophical design concept for the system, its effects on playing and composing with it, and a reflection of the collaborative process of making. The multi-elements of this submission are reflective of different ways of interrogating the fundamental research questions associated with the making of the artefact from a number of different perspective, i.e. philosophically led design, research through practice, the playing of and performing with the system, and reflection on the collaborative process of making.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is a multi-component submission consisting of:
• Artefact: The Feral Cello, a new actuated, feedback, machine listening controlled, musical instrument.
• Conference paper 1: that sets out the philosophically-led design that was followed in the creation of this instrument.
• Conference paper 2: exploring the collaborative practice of creating the Feral Cello and how the design feeds into a performance practice.
The supporting contextual information documents the technical construction of the artefact and documents its use in performance. It explains the context of the research as an artefact that has been explicitly designed to go against the idea that instrumentalists should strive to have absolute control over their instruments. The originality of this performance system lies in the philosophical decision to highlight the agency of the technologically enhanced cello through making cello’s ‘performance decisions’ obvious in practice. This approach is inspired by a post-phenomenological understanding of embodied relationships with performing with technologies. The Feral Cello explicitly explores issues of agency in technologically-mediated performance seeking to highlight the technological and human agential boundaries that are fluid and contingent on situation; challenging the understanding of musical instruments as fixed objects for interaction. This philosophically informed approach is described in Conference paper 1 submitted as part of the portfolio. The methodology of creation of this system has been a work shopping process with composer/performer Laura Reid. Reflections on this process and how the instrumental design has affected the way you can perform and compose for the system as explored in Conference paper 2. Performances with the system have been given at multiple major conferences and talks at multiple conferences and symposia (see dissemination section). The system has been cited as being influential in the design of proceeding actuated and chaotic systems (see contribution to the field section).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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