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Improvising Inside a House of Cards: New performance and music-making through a collective networked instrument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2021

Trond Engum ,
Thomas Henriksen  and
Carl Haakon Waadeland
Trond Engum*
Affiliation:
Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Thomas Henriksen*
Affiliation:
Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Carl Haakon Waadeland*
Affiliation:
Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
*
Emails: trond.engum@ntnu.no; thomas.henriksen@ntnu.no; carl.haakon.waadeland@ntnu.no
Emails: trond.engum@ntnu.no; thomas.henriksen@ntnu.no; carl.haakon.waadeland@ntnu.no
Emails: trond.engum@ntnu.no; thomas.henriksen@ntnu.no; carl.haakon.waadeland@ntnu.no
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Abstract

This article presents experiences and reflections related to performing improvised, live processed electroacoustic music within a context of networked music performance. The musical interaction is performed through a new collective networked instrument, and we report how the ensemble ‘Magnify the Sound’, consisting of two of the authors of this article, meets the instrument in different networked performance situations, and how this is related to the affordance of the instrument. In our performances the network is inherent to our artistic practice, and we experience a phenomenological and somatic transformation in our roles as musicians, from individual instrumentality to shared instrumentality. The instrument invites new forms of music-making and contributes in fundamental ways to the ensemble’s musical communication and artistic expression. In the present article we outline our methods of working artistically with the networked instrument, and we point at some artistic results. We then discuss how the collective instrument has facilitated new performance and musical practice within the network.

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Organised Sound , Volume 26 , Issue 3: Collective and Networked Sound Practices , December 2021 , pp. 378 - 389
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