What is it about?
Percussionists invent new instruments and new ways to play them to create exciting performances. In this work, we show how percussionists can apply these skills to electronic music apps on iPads. This paper describes how two percussion groups learned to perform with a series of iPad apps, and how their contributions led to the refinement of the touchscreen apps' designs.
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Why is it important?
Electronic music software is dominated by complicated interfaces with many settings, this work shows how percussionists can use much simpler music software to create complex and satisfying performances. This process led to refined apps that are more appropriate for novice users.
Perspectives
This work tracks a personal journey combining a passion for percussion instruments and performance with electronic music. Percussionists have a well-defined approach to performing on many different instruments, and know how to apply this to new sound-making objects. It was wonderful to find how useful this approach was in creating unique electronic musical instruments.
Charles Martin
Universitetet i Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Percussionist-Centred Design for Touchscreen Digital Musical Instruments, Contemporary Music Review, March 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2017.1370794.
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