Book Chapter

The Spaces Between Gesture, Sound and Image

Mark Pedersen, Brigid Burke, Peter Alsop

Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices | Routledge | Published : 2020

Abstract

Improvised audiovisual performance is a rich field of creative practice, fuelled by the image-centricity of contemporary performance culture and increasingly affordable and powerful technology for live digital image projection. However, the domains of audio and visual creativity frequently remain separate. Contemporary literature on new interfaces for musical expression are frequently centred on aspects of design and expressivity within the framework of music performance alone, and discussions on interactive and graphic scores for contemporary music performance focus on the affordances of the visual score as a medium. Meanwhile there are limited frames of reference for examining improvised a..

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