Intelligent musical instruments: The future of musical performance or the demise of the performer?
W. Andrew Schloss, David A. Jaffe · Interface · 1993
This paper examines the potential problems that “too much” technology in musical performance can create. In developing very powerful computer‐assisted instruments, and in decoupling the sound production from the gesture, issues of what performance is really about start to surface. This is a relatively recent problem, because it is only in the last few years that real‐time performance has been widely possible in computer music. As a case in point, we will discuss a recently co‐composed piece entitled “Wildlife”, that involves many of the critical issues.