Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most
important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live …

How the deliberate cracking and breaking of playback media has produced experimental
music and sound by artists and musicians ranging from Nam June Paik and Christian …

Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening.
Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre–noise, designed sound, silence, and …

In 2005, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), an ensemble of fifteen laptop-based meta-
instruments, began its first season. In this article, the author explores the motivations for …

To answer this let's start somewhere else: if something is not live, then what is it?
Historically, the answer to this might have been that something that was not live was …

This article adopts an ecological view of digital musical interactions, considering first the
relationship between performers and digital systems, and then spectators' perception of …

This paper documents the first developmental phase of an interface that enables the
performance of live music using gestures and body movements. The work included focuses …

Digital musical instruments bring about problems for performance that are different in kind to
those brought about by conventional acoustic instruments. In this essay, I argue that one of …

This paper examines the notion of community as commonly employed within NIME
discourses. Our aim is to clarify and define the term through the community of practice …

A fundamental assumption in the fields of human-computer interaction and usability studies
is that interfaces should be designed for ease of use, with a few exceptions such as the trade …