Improvising in the Loop: Seven Improvisatory, Loop-Based Pieces for Customized Data-Driven Instruments; A Digital Portfolio Dissertation

Asman, Nathan Morris

Improvising in the Loop: Seven Improvisatory, Loop-Based Pieces for Customized Data-Driven Instruments; A Digital Portfolio Dissertation

dc.contributor.advisor
dc.contributor.advisor	Stolet, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.author	Asman, Nathan Morris
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-20T20:42:13Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-20T20:42:13Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05
dc.description	Digital Portfolio Dissertation files include: descriptive text document; README; zipped computer files; and 7 performance videos linked for streaming at this URL on University of Oregon Panopto service: https://uoregon.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=6c4ea9b1-2f63-433e-8187-abc101739430. Archival copies of videos have been preserved by the UO Libraries.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Improvising in the Loop serves as both a compendium of and comprehensive guide to the music I have written and performed as well as the instruments I have created and designed during my tenure as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance. Loopbased music has long played a fundamental and influential role in the genesis of the music that I write and perform, as has the idea of musical improvisation. Every piece that I have included in my Digital Portfolio Dissertation contains improvised loop-based music in some way. The first of seven pieces that I will be discussing is called Étude No.1, for Curve. It is the piece I wrote for my second custom-built interface, called Curve. The étude was written for Ableton Live and Max/ MSP. T(Re)es (Trees: Remixed) was written for the Monome. The software I used to write T(Re)es was Ableton Live and Max/MSP. Trio 1-465 is next and is the first ensemble-based piece in my repertoire. Trio was written for cello, turntables, and my own custom-designed interface utilizing Contour Design’s RollerMouse Red Plus. Trio employs Ableton Live, Max/MSP, and the Ms. Pinky software environments. Impromptu No. 1, for ShrutiBox+ was written for a custom-built hybrid instrument/interface of my own design called Shrutibox+. Ableton Live and Max/MSP served as the compositional and performative software environments for the impromptu. Multios is a piece I wrote using only my iPad and iPhone, utilizing a variety of iOS apps for the sound design, data mapping, composition, and ultimate performance of the piece. ArcMorph was written for my Sensel Morph and Arc, and was realized and performed with Ableton Live and Max/MSP. The final piece I will discuss is called Kaurios, which is also the name of the custom-built interface. Composed and performed with Ableton Live and Max/MSP, Kaurios signifies the culmination of my studies as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25345
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon	en_US
dc.rights	Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US	en_US
dc.subject	Music composition	en_US
dc.subject	Data-driven music	en_US
dc.subject	Interactive composition	en_US
dc.subject	Loop-based music	en_US
dc.subject	musical improvisation	en_US
dc.title	Improvising in the Loop: Seven Improvisatory, Loop-Based Pieces for Customized Data-Driven Instruments; A Digital Portfolio Dissertation	en_US
dc.type	Thesis / Dissertation	en_US