Moriaty, Manoli (2022) Collective Controllerism: A Non-Musician's Perspective of Interactive Dance as Controllerist Practice. In: Designing Interactions for Music and Sound. Focal Press, pp. 30-64. ISBN 9781003140535 (Accepted for Publication)
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Abstract
Music has been constantly reinvented by a multitude of inventions. In recent years, digital technologies have given rise to practices that not only break free from traditional canons of musical literacy, but further invite engagement by artists whose predominant expressive medium is other than sound. This chapter examines this emerging phenomenon through the perspective of a collaboration between a contemporary dancer and a controllerist, i.e., a non-musician performer of electronic music using tangible interfaces for real-time sequencing, manipulation, and generation of sound. The chapter begins with the author’s reflection on his artistic identity, and the challenges of operating on the intersection of practices utilising different expressive mediums. A literature review follows, outlining the lineage of controllerism as an emergent practice borne out of commercial music technology and the transition of disc jockeys from analogue to digital equipment. Through a Practice Research methodology, a reflective work is analysed as to detail the different devices and mapping strategies that control sound, as well as designing an environment that affords dancer’s cognition of the music-making processes and allows them to utilise movement towards actively participating in a controllerist performance. With controllerism extended to a hybrid collaborative domain, the (non-) musician’s perspective shifts away from utilising movement data as merely a further input device complementing traditional controllers, and instead considers dancer collaborators as music performers that can be entrusted with commanding crucial sonic elements. The chapter concludes by suggesting ways for controllerism to become further established as a research topic through interface standardisation and the development of transcription systems.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keywords: | controllerism, deejay culture, interactive dance |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Manoli Moriaty |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2022 15:27 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2024 00:15 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3505 |
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