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This article offers a shared account of one out of a pluriverse of possible musics in the 21st century, with three personal perspectives. It is written by a trio of musicians/artists/researchers, who have been co-inventing an idiosyncratic style of music, including its instruments, compositional strategies, and performance systems. We articulate our artistic aims in a many-festo, discuss the background that informs our thinking, give examples of related artistic instrument design, and explain aspects of our own work that exemplify our essential insights and resulting tenets.
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The many-festo exists in many animated versions; for some net-based ones, see: Trio Brachiale (2016).
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The Macy conferences which crystallised the cybernetics concepts in the 1940s and 50s were held under the title “Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems”. The proceedings of the sessions from 1949–53 are reprinted in (Pias 2003).
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Howard Becker’s book Art Worlds is a brilliant and highly entertaining detailed study on how authorship and distribution of financial rewards are negotiated in a wide range of art disciplines (Becker and Howard 1982).
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Personal communications, 2005–2016.
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In many scientific domains, a black box is any device of interest that has inputs and outputs, and whose internals are not known a priori.
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“Aaji” means circuitry, and “knowledge” means mainstream engineering thought, as in Shannon’s information theory (Blasser n.d.).
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Master improviser Robin Hayward reports that he deliberately modifies the mechanics of his tuba prior to performances, in order to push himself into a situation of re-learning on stage. (personal communication 2015).
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For a contemporary definition of musical experimentalism, see Emerson (2014).
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Compared to the total-recall convenience in music production environments, presets for nontrivial processes are not intended for full reproduction; they only put the process in a similar orbit.
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All published as SuperCollider extension libraries.
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Hildebrand Marques Lopes, D., Hoelzl, H., de Campo, A. (2017). Three Flavors of Post-Instrumentalities: The Musical Practices of, and a Many-Festo by Trio Brachiale. In: Bovermann, T., de Campo, A., Egermann, H., Hardjowirogo, SI., Weinzierl, S. (eds) Musical Instruments in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2951-6_22
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