Article by Alex Nowitz on EXTENDING VOCAL ART PERFORMANCE USING A CUSTOM DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

Wed 11-01-2017

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Alex Nowitz his recently published article Designing and Playing the Strophonion is published at the eContact!, issue 18.3, at the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC):
http://econtact.ca/18_3/nowitz_strophonion.html

This article deals with matters we also discussed in our Dpt of Public Sound # 2 ; Vocal Extensions. Pieter Verstraete wrote an essay for that in which he discusse the work and contribution of Alex Nowitz his performance for our Who’s Afraid of the Modern Opera program in 2011 for Operadagen Rotterdam.

Roughly the article deals with the pathways of designing and performing a digital musical instrument (DMI) in the context of vocal art performance are elucidated in two parts. The first part discusses the musico-functional approach and the mapping of keys and sensors, the legacy of the predecessor instrument (The Hands), pitfalls along the way and possible approaches to notation for performance on the instrument. The second part addresses the practice of integrating the DMI in vocal art performance, æsthetics of vocal plurality, concepts of embodying and disembodying the voice, as well as choreographic aspects, each of which expands the field of vocal art performance.

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