Understanding Musical Practices as Agency Networks

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Brown, AR
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2016
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This position paper
proposes
that
creative practices
can be usefully understood as agency network
s.
In
particular it looks at
interactive algorithmic musical
practices
and the takes a distributed view of the
influences involved in
such
music making. The
elements involved include humans, tools, cultu
re and
the physical environment that constitute a system
or
network of mutual influences. Such an agency network
perspective is intended to be
useful for the pragmatic
tasks of designing new interactive music systems and
developing new musical ...
View more >This position paper proposes that creative practices can be usefully understood as agency network s. In particular it looks at interactive algorithmic musical practices and the takes a distributed view of the influences involved in such music making. The elements involved include humans, tools, cultu re and the physical environment that constitute a system or network of mutual influences. Such an agency network perspective is intended to be useful for the pragmatic tasks of designing new interactive music systems and developing new musical practices that utilise them . Drawing on previous research into gener ative music and computational creativity , various views on interactive music systems are canvassed and an approach to describing these as agency networks is developed. It is suggested that new human - machine musical practices may arise as a result of adopti ng an agency network perspective and that these, in turn, can drive cultural innovations.
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View more >This position paper proposes that creative practices can be usefully understood as agency network s. In particular it looks at interactive algorithmic musical practices and the takes a distributed view of the influences involved in such music making. The elements involved include humans, tools, cultu re and the physical environment that constitute a system or network of mutual influences. Such an agency network perspective is intended to be useful for the pragmatic tasks of designing new interactive music systems and developing new musical practices that utilise them . Drawing on previous research into gener ative music and computational creativity , various views on interactive music systems are canvassed and an approach to describing these as agency networks is developed. It is suggested that new human - machine musical practices may arise as a result of adopti ng an agency network perspective and that these, in turn, can drive cultural innovations.
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Conference Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016
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Interactive media