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#21, January 2019
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Atau Tanaka and
Marco Donnarumma build upon phenomenology and
body theory to consider the human body as
musical instrument. This paper presents a
history of gestural musical instruments and
looks at musical works using physiological
signals, including seminal works of Lucier and
Rosenboom. The body as instrument is discussed
as schemata and configurations of body and
technology.
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This essay
describes a way of looking at live media
performance practice that questions the notion
of the screen as final destination for the
content of a performance. Using a systems
aesthetic, it examines a set of entangled
elements that give an audience an alternate
means to decode the liveness of a performance
based on embodied action, transcoding, and
intermedia narrative.
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The aim of this
paper is to investigate the use of graphic
notation in relation to improvisation and
indeterminacy in practice. Along with
terms and ideas pioneered by composers in the
20th century, the techniques the author used in
his own compositions are discussed and examined,
including informal interviews with four
musicians, in regarding graphic notation as a
bridge over improvisation and notated music.
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The project
Landscapes of Absence explores the ethical
issues around the use of ISIS propaganda within
broadcast media. The project uses images drawn
from eight beheading incidents disseminated by
ISIS, these images are digitally erased, leaving
only the landscape and the absence of the
dehumanized image as a metaphor for the larger
issue of the absence of reliable reporting from
this region.
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Through a
(mis)reading of Pippin Barr's game It is as if
you were doing work (2017), this essay explores
the relationship between bodies, labour, and
entertainment. It speculatively argues that
performing useless labour seems to be essential
for maintaining the illusion that our(?) bodies
are still 'human.'
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