Abschlussarbeit, Theorie

Black box fading

2021

Creator Melody Chua

Department ZHdK, MA Transdisziplinarität, Zürich, CH (gegründet 2009)

ZHdK, Departement Kulturanalysen und -Vermittlung, DKV, Zürich, CH (gegründet 2007)

MediumPrint, Broschüre

DimensionsFormat: 21 × 21 cm, 139 Seiten

Titles

Untertitelchua.ch/box/0

StudienarbeitMaster of Arts ZFH in Transdisziplinarität in den Künsten

DescriptionCreating a musical improvisation machine can be regarded as practical way to learn more about the character of its creator. Through the making of my own improvisation machine, a software patch cheekily named AIYA, I have begun to learn more about my own biases as a musician as well as how to dissect the complex interactions and customs that are at play during my improvisations. I attempted to translate the metaphorical black box of spontaneous human interaction into concrete algorithms for the machine’s behavior. In the process of doing so, I began to view my own position within an improvisation (both with humans and with machines) in a new perspective, which afforded me distance to my normal immersion as a performer playing the flute and allowed me to examine and strategically arrange the underlying principles of improvisation that drive the performance.

Object numberCNA-2021-C05-001

DepartmentArchiv ZHdK

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Credit LineZürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK / Archiv