Formalization of computer music interaction through a semiotic approach
Fernando Henrique de Oliveira Iazzetta · Journal of New Music Research · 1996
Musical activity involves, in its essence, interactive processes in all of its levels: composition, performance and listening. This paper is an attempt to understand human/computer interaction and the way it works in the field of computer music performance. We first present interaction as a communication process and introduce some concepts of the semiotic theory established by the American philosopher C.S. Peirce. Peirce's triadic categories are presented and used to classify interactive music systems. Then, we proceed to analyze different aspects of music interaction in relation to Peirce's semiotics.