The Language of Action and Cyberaction-based Music: Theory and Practice
Juraj Kojs · Journal of New Music Research · 2009
Action can define, guide and inform all aspects of compositional process and foster musical expression. This article formalizes a language of action-based music in the physical world and cyberspace. Typologies of actions form lexica from which such music emerges. Physical modelling synthesis is an excellent vehicle for conceptualization of actions and instruments in the digital domain, yielding replica extended, hybrid, and abstract cyberinstruments and cyberactions. Compositional examples situate proposed theoretical principles in musical practice.1 1This article is based on my dissertation research (Kojs, 2008 Kojs, J. and Serafin, S. 2008. Augmenting sonic reality. Cyberinstruments designed with digital waveguides. Digital Creativity, 19(2): 77–90. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).