soundNode: a user interface for sound design in performance environments

Abstract

This thesis delivers a functional software model for sound design that explores the ideas of agency, immersion and transformation in dramatic process in the context of human-computer interfaces. It seeks to examine the links between these ideas to develop a performance interface methodology that considers both the Neo-Aristotelian model for dramatic process and user interaction in its architecture. The validity of these ideas will be evaluated and explored through various prototype software systems I have designed and constructed within the Cycling ’74 Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. Each will be extracted and discussed and usage examples will be examined to assess their viability an..