Surfing with sound: an ethnography of the art of no-input mixing

Chamberlain, Alan

Abstract

The idea of No-Input Mixing may appear at first difficult to understand, after all there is no input, yet artists, performers and sound designers have used a variety of approaches using such feedback systems to create music. This paper uses ethnographic approaches to start to understand the methods that people employ when using no-input systems, and in so doing tries to make the invisible, visible. In unpacking some of these techniques we are able to render understandings, of what at first appears to be a random and autonomous set of sounds, as a set of audio features that are controlled, created and are able to be manipulated by a given performer. This is particularly interesting for researchers that involved in the design of new feedback-based instruments, Human Computer Interaction and aleatoric-compositional software.

Citation

Chamberlain, A. (2018, September). Surfing with sound: an ethnography of the art of no-input mixing. Presented at Audio Mostly 2018: a conference on interaction with sound

• Conference Name: Audio Mostly 2018: a conference on interaction with sound
• Start Date: Sep 12, 2018
• End Date: Sep 14, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Jun 18, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 12, 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 17, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 13, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-6609-0
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3243289
• Keywords: Ethnography, Autoethnography, Feedback, Mixing, Non-Input, Semantics, Methods, Design, Music, HCI, Experimental, Qualitative, Sound Art, Noise
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1037209
• Related Public URLs: http://audiomostly.com/
• Contract Date: Aug 17, 2018