ICMC 2006 - Saturday 11 (Day 6)
Interesting things from ICMC 2006 day 6: Matt Wright (CNMAT) talked about CNMAT’s work on augmented guitar and 6-string cello, based on a hexaphonic setup of piezo elements on each string. Mark Zadel (McGill) had an interesting survey of laptop performance. He commented that this type of music is often very dense and with complex soundscapes. Most commercial “live software” are made so that musical elements can be laid out tightly beforehand, and everything is quantized so much that it is impossible to make any big mistakes during the performance. He called this “piloting” systems, where the performer navigates through patches were only a few parameters are open for performance control. ...