Interactive Sound Performances involving
Robotics and Sensor Systems
Programmed in MAX/MSP
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA Sonic Arts
Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, November 2003
This dissertation consists of two parts:
The first part will focus on the work being accomplished in the first two semesters as a context for the third semester which included an investigation of electronics and the final interactive (robotics) sound performance. Details are given about this final collaborative project: Stelarc’s ‘Muscle Machine’ (formerly known as ‘Anatomical Exoskeleton’).
(Note : I regularly refer to quotes from an essay by Roy Ascott (‘A Digital Arts Glossary’ 1996) throughout this writing. Roy Ascott is director of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts of the University of Wales College, Newport, U.K. He has pioneered the place of cybernetics, telematics and interactive media in art and is on the editorial board of the Leonardo journal.)
Ascott, Roy (1996) 'A Digital Arts Glossary'. Point, Art + Design Research Journal (1:1), pp.8-11. London.