Mutable Gestures: A New Animated Notation System for Conductor and Chamber Ensemble
Ciaran Frame, Alon Ilsar, Sam Trolland · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
This paper outlines the creation of a new real-time scoring work, Mutable Gestures, for any combination of chamber instruments with a conductor. The work translates a conductor's gestures into real-time animated notation, relayed to performers over a wireless network to generate musical material for improvisation. Drawing on recent real-time notation works, Mutable Gestures proposes a new form of gestural notation creation through the use of the AirStick, a new gestural musical instrument. The creation of this work contributes to the growing field of real-time animated notation, a field that reinterprets the traditional roles of score, conductor, composer and performer.