Designing musical instruments to make performance accessible to novice musicians is a
goal which long predates digital technology. However, just in the space of the past 6 years …

Feedback is a process that is common in both acoustic and electronic musical instruments,
but rare in digital musical tools or creative digital tools more generally. This paper examines …

The design of a new technology entails the materialisation of values emerging from the
specific community, culture and context in which that technology is created. Within the …

Entanglement theories are well established in HCI discourse. These involve a commitment
to view human experience in encounters with technology as relational and contingent, and …

Within the music improvisation and jazz scenes, playing a wrong note may be seen as a
source of creativity and novelty, where an initially undesired factor (the mistaken note) …

This is the introductory chapter of a book dedicated to new research in, and emerging new
understandings of, music and human-computer interaction—known for short as music …

Research on Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) design highlights that materiality plays an
important role in DMI design and musical interaction. However, DMI design research often …

Musical instruments are not static and neutral technological objects, but objects we shape
through our designing and performing practices. Along these lines, various authors have …

Percussive fingerstyle is a playing technique adopted by many contemporary acoustic
guitarists, and it has grown substantially in popularity over the last decade. Its foundations lie …

This article explores the evolving dynamics between musicians and technological artifacts.
Building on Karen Barad's concept of intra-action, I intend to show how musicians and digital …