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Numbers in places: creative interventions in musical space & time

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Ada Lovelace noted that Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine "might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent". The Numbers into Notes project, in its first phase, explored how this might have occurred nearly two centuries ago on the giant steam-powered machine using the mathematics of the time. Now we are asking what Lovelace might do today, with a microcontroller instead of the analytical engine. In our experiment, multiple devices are programmed to generate music, with creative interventions by humans to compose and influence the experience in locative sound.

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MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

September 2016

664 pages

ISBN:9781450344135

DOI:10.1145/2957265

General Chairs:
Fabio Paternò
CNR-ISTI, Italy
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Kaisa Väänänen
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Karen Church
Intercom, USA
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Jonna Häkkilä
University of Lapland, Finland
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Antonio Krüger
DFKI, Germany
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Marcos Serrano
University of Toulouse, France

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De Roure DWillcox PChamberlain ACunningham SPicking R(2018)Lovelace's LegacyProceedings of the Audio Mostly 2018 on Sound in Immersion and Emotion10.1145/3243274.3275380(1-5)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2018
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Chamberlain ABødker MHazzard AMcGookin DDe Roure DWillcox PPapangelis K(2017)Audio Technology and Mobile Human Computer InteractionInternational Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction10.5555/3213394.32133979:4(25-40)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2017
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Chamberlain ABødker MHazzard AMcGookin DDe Roure DWillcox PPapangelis K(2017)Audio Technology and Mobile Human Computer InteractionInternational Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction10.4018/IJMHCI.20171001039:4(25-40)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2017
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De Roure DWillcox P(2017)Experimental Humanities: An Adventure with Lovelace and Babbage2017 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)10.1109/eScience.2017.32(194-201)Online publication date: Oct-2017
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