MIT Music Tech Speaker Series: Andrew McPherson

Enacted, not Extracted: Designing and Performing with Music-Analytical Concepts This is a talk about designing musical instruments and the delicate interplay of artistic and technical ways of thinking. All instruments, and especially digital ones, entail a balance between design and analysis, with instruments relying on symbolic or numerical models of music in order to create it, as exemplified in the venerable MIDI standard. However, no system is ever devoid of sociocultural context, and even the simplest technologies when examined in situ can exhibit fascinating complexity. This talk will be