Afterword: Toward a Curricular Synthesis

Filimowicz, Michael; Tzankova, Veronika

doi:10.1017/9781316481165.015

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“…Hence, the previously mentioned dancer could allude to the development of a collective sensorium , as it were, as a processual outcome of participatory workshopping with real-time, abductively constructed wearable DMIs. Abductive reasoning, likewise, is the mode of critical learning taking place in transdisciplinary computational creativity (Filimowicz and Tzankova, 2017 ). This design space addresses an aperture in the scientific literature being incipiently explored by a variety of MOCO researchers and practitioners bridging the artistry of interactive dance systems with scientific interest in movement sonification for sensorimotor learning (see Bevilacqua et al, 2016 ; Giomi, 2020 for concise summaries of this research space).…”

Section: Relational Experiential Inquiry In Movement Artsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collectively playable wearable music: Practice-situated approaches to participatory relational inquiry

Thorn

Willcox

2022

Wearable Technol.

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We present two practice-situated participatory investigations using networked wearable sensors to develop movement-responsive collectively playable musical instruments: a series of four collocated workshops for expert dancers and a distance learning course in which students use wearable technology to enhance embodied learning and feelings of connectedness telematically. We reflect on our exploration of techniques for structuring ensemble improvisations augmented with bespoke digital musical instruments using aggregate statistical measures, such as variance of participants’ physical orientation as an index of group intention. Participatory design exchanges top-down design methodologies with bottom-up approaches consulting actors’ interests. We follow this approach by evolving our instruments through abductive experiments and trial-and-error tinkering, without strong theories, methods, or models, using elementary signal processing techniques that are meaningfully understood and modified by participants. Our experiences suggest useful scaffolding techniques for educational transdisciplinary research-creation communities seeking to explore relational ensemble dynamics in telematic and/or physically collocated settings using accessible wearable technologies. Through creative inquiry and participation, technical objects can become bearers of sense and meaning rather than instating mystifying or alienating relations for the participants.

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Section: Relational Experiential Inquiry In Movement Artsmentioning

confidence: 99%