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MetaMuse: metaphors for expressive instruments

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NIME '02: Proceedings of the 2002 conference on New interfaces for musical expression

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We explore the role that metaphor plays in developing expressive devices by examining the MetaMuse system. MetaMuse is a prop-based system that uses the metaphor of rainfall to make the process of granular synthesis understandable. We discuss MetaMuse within a framework we call "transparency" that can be used as a predictor of the expressivity of musical devices. Metaphor depends on a literature, or cultural basis, which forms the basis for making transparent device mappings. In this context we evaluate the effect of metaphor in the MetaMuse system.

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