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    An investigation of groups composing music in a computer learning culture using micro-processor based midi systems : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Education, Massey University
    (Massey University, 1991) Pegler, Philip
    Composing music appears to have been marginalised in many secondary school music programmes. Music research on composition and student learning fares no better. The advent of information processing technologies and knowledge based systems offer powerful compositional tools with the potential for transforming the face of music education. However, if the context for this change is overlooked these tools may be wasted. By themselves micro-processor based MIDI systems can do nothing. When viewed as part of a learning culture, computers, teachers and students interact together to enhance student learning. Cognitive gains may depend on the type, extent, and quality of interaction taking place within the computer learning culture which surrounds the use of educational software tools. The role of the teacher is to create socially interactive and reflective learning environments. This study explores how groups compose music with computers in such an environment. It aims to observe what happens - or can be made to happen - under natural conditions where powerful roles are played by the cultural, social, and institutional contexts. The emotional aspects of student learning, attribution theory and metacognition are discussed in more depth. It is not enough, however, to simply use composition tools in the classroom. Effective thinking and learning should be accompanied by direct teaching of efficient strategies and problem solving techniques. Recently several researchers have drawn attention to the importance of social factors in the development of thinking skills. The following research follows this line of enquiry.
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    Contemporary approaches to live computer music : the evolution of the performer composer : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington [i.e. New Zealand School of Music] in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    (Massey University, 2013) Vallis, Owen Skipper
    This thesis examines contemporary approaches to live computer music, and the impact they have on the evolution of the composer performer. How do online resources and communities impact the design and creation of new musical interfaces used for live computer music? Can we use machine learning to augment and extend the expressive potential of a single live musician? How can these tools be integrated into ensembles of computer musicians? Given these tools, can we understand the computer musician within the traditional context of acoustic instrumentalists, or do we require new concepts and taxonomies? Lastly, how do audiences perceive and understand these new technologies, and what does this mean for the connection between musician and audience? The focus of the research presented in this dissertation examines the application of current computing technology towards furthering the field of live computer music. This field is diverse and rich, with individual live computer musicians developing custom instruments and unique modes of performance. This diversity leads to the development of new models of performance, and the evolution of established approaches to live instrumental music. This research was conducted in several parts. The first section examines how online communities are iteratively developing interfaces for computer music. Several case studies are presented as examples of how online communities are helping to drive new developments in musical interface design. This thesis also presents research into designing real-time interactive systems capable of creating a virtual model of an existing performer, that then allows the model’s output to be contextualized by a second performer’s live input. These systems allow for a solo live musician’s single action to be multiplied into many different, but contextually dependent, actions. v Additionally, this thesis looks at contemporary approaches to local networked ensembles, the concept of shared social instruments, and the ways in which the previously described research can be used in these ensembles. The primary contributions of these efforts include (1) the development of several new open-source interfaces for live computer music, and the examination of the effect that online communities have on the evolution of musical interfaces; (2) the development of a novel approach to search based interactive musical agents; (3) examining how networked music ensembles can provided new forms of shared social instruments.
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    The cinematic aspects of electroacoustic music : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Composition, New Zealand School of Music
    (Massey University, 2010) Taylor, Sarah Elizabeth
    This portfolio explores ‘the cinematic aspects of electroacoustic music’ by way of three compositional contexts: acousmatic composition drawing on filmic resources, electroacoustic soundtracks for short films, and the narrative and imagic aspects of archival recordings. Additionally, a research report provides commentary on the aesthetic and methodological aspects of the portfolio.
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    Diffusion evolved : new musical interfaces applied to diffusion performance : an exegesis submitted to the New Zealand School of Music in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of the Musical Arts in Composition
    (Massey University, 2013) Johnson, Bridget Dougherty
    This exegesis takes a critical look at the performance paradigm of sound diffusion. In making a shift away from the sixty-year-old practice of performing on a mixing desk or other fader bank console, it proposes and outlines a goal towards intuitive and transparent relationships between performance gesture and spatial trajectories. This is achieved by a coupling of the two previously segmented fields within electroacoustic: spatialisation and interface design. This research explains how connections between the two fields and an embracing of contemporary technological developments, with a goal toward increasing the liveness and gestural input that currently limit sound diffusion practice, could extend the art form into a virtuosic and compelling gestural performance art. The exegesis introduces and describes the author’s research and development of tactile.space, a new multitouch tool developed on the Bricktable for live sound diffusion. tactile.space is intended as a contribution to the growing research area of user interfaces developed specifically for the performance of sound in space. It affords performers a new level of gestural interaction with the space of the concert hall and the audience members and redefines multiple standardised interactions between the performer and the space, the gesture, the audience, and the sound in a diffusion concert.
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