Radical Creative Semantic Anchoring: Creative-action metaphors and timbral interaction

Abstract

This paper explores participatory and socially engaged practices in ubiquitous music (ubimus). We discuss recent advances that target timbre as their focus while incorporating semantic strategies for knowledge transfer among participants. Creative Semantic Anchoring (ASC from the original in Portuguese) is a creative-action metaphor that shows promising preliminary results in collaborative asynchronous activities. Given its grounding in local resources and its support for explicit knowledge, ASC features a good potential to boost socially distributed knowledge. We discuss three strategies that consolidate and expand this approach within ubiquitous music and propose the label Radical ASC. We investigate the implications of this framework through the analysis of two artistic projects: Atravessamentos and Ntrallazzu.

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Editorial: Ecologically grounded creative practices and ubiquitous music – interaction and environment

“…Sincere thanks, also, to all The intersection between timbre studies and interaction design has recently emerged as a topic actively pursued through ubimus techniques (Chakraborty, Yaseen, Timoney, Lazzarini and Keller 2022). This thread is complemented by the investigations of an expanded approach to semantics that has also been applied in ubimus interaction strategies for audio processing (Simurra, Messina, Aliel and Keller 2023). contributors, to the peer reviewers for their feedback on highly diverse topics and for doing so much to inform the collection, and to the wider ubimus community of researchers and practitioners for their contributions to shaping the original call.…”

“… 7 The intersection between timbre studies and interaction design has recently emerged as a topic actively pursued through ubimus techniques (Chakraborty, Yaseen, Timoney, Lazzarini and Keller 2022). This thread is complemented by the investigations of an expanded approach to semantics that has also been applied in ubimus interaction strategies for audio processing (Simurra, Messina, Aliel and Keller 2023). …”