Sound spatialisation, free improvisation and ambiguity

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This paper documents emergent practice led research that brings together live sound spatialisation and free improvisation with digital tools in a performance context. An experimental performance is described in which two musicians -- a turntablist and a laptop performer -- improvised, with the results being spatialised via multiple loudspeakers by a third performer using the Resound spatialisation system. This paper focuses on the spatial element of the performance and its implications, its technical realisation and some aesthetic observations centring on the notion of `ambiguity' in free improvisation. An analysis raises numerous research questions, which feed into a discussion of subsequent, current and future work.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Authors/Creators:	Mooney, JR Parkinson, A Bell, P
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	(c) 2008, Mooney, JR, Parkinson, A and Bell, P. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and any derivative works are licensed under the same terms.
Dates:	Published: 1 June 2008
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2014 10:15
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2018 20:57
Published Version:	http://smcnetwork.org/node/1170
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Sound and Music Computing
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:80583

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