URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/lmj

Language(s): English

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Studies ,  Chaos Theory ,  Indeterminacy ,  Data Tracking ,  Live Electronics ,  Real-time ,  Interactivity ,  Computer Music ,  Mixed Work

Abstract:

In this article, after outlining a background of catastrophe theory and its links to musical composition, the author presents a manifestation of those links in the form of a “catastrophe machine”-an interactive musical system in which abrupt changes in computer-generated sound processing are dependent upon performers’ sensitive control of acoustic instruments. She then discusses notions of power and responsibility as they stem from a specific realization of this system, Berubah.