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Þórhallur Magnússon - Research Professor

Þórhallur Magnússon

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Þórhallur Magnússon

Research Professor

Research Professor

Location
Veröld - Hús Vigdísar / VHV-222
Email
thormagnusson [at] hi.is

Unit
Institute of Philosophy
Website
https://thormagnusson.github.io

Curriculum Vitae
Þórhallur Magnússon - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3731-0630
Research portal – Þórhallur Magnússon

Published works

2024

The Organium
Embodied Sketching for Neural Synthesis

2023

Magnetic Interactions as a Somatosensory Interface
The Magnetic Score: Somatosensory Inscriptions and Relational Design in The Instrument-Score

2022

Autocoder
Reflexions upon Feedback
The Proto-Langspil: Launching an Icelandic NIME Research Lab with the Help of a Marginalised Instrument
Live coding: a user's manual
MusIAC: An Extensible Generative Framework for Music Infilling Applications with Multi-level Control
Embedded AI for NIME: Challenges and Opportunities

2021

Assessing the Support for Creativity of a Playground for Live Coding Machine Learning
The migration of musical instruments: On the socio-technological conditions of musical evolutionJournal of New Music Research
Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instrumentsJournal of New Music Research
Curating experience: Composition as cultural technology – a conversationJournal of New Music Research
Designing the Threnoscope, or, How I Wrote One of My Pieces

2020

Live coding machine learning and machine listening: a survey on the design of languages and environments for live coding
Digital Musical Instruments as Probes: How computation changes the mode-of-being of musical instrumentsOrganised Sound
A signal engine for a live coding language ecosystemAES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Instrumental investigations at the Emute lab
Threnoscope
Digitizing the txalaparta: Computer-based study of a traditional practiceComputer Music Journal
Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider
Designing for a pluralist and user-friendly live code language ecosystem with Sema

2019

Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions
An AudioWorklet-based signal engine for a live coding language ecosystem
Echoes of other worlds: sound in virtual realityInternational Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
Composing spatial soundscapes using acoustic metasurfaces
Ergodynamics and a semiotics of instrumental compositionTempo

2018

Sound and Music in Networked Media
Ergomimesis: towards a language describing instrumental transductions
Brain Dead Ensemble
Performing with Patterns of Time
Brain Dead Ensemble

2017

Contextualizing Musical Organics
Musical Organics: A Heterarchical Approach to Digital OrganologyJournal of New Music Research
Interfacing sound: visual representation of sound in musical software instruments

2016

Editorial: On the technology of liveness
Writing with shaky hands
Generative Music: A Form without a Format
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces
Notating the non-notateable: digital notation of txalaparta practice

2015

Code scores in live coding practice
Sight and sound: visualizing music in software instruments

2014

Improvising with the threnoscope: integrating code, hardware, GUI, network, and graphic scores
Scoring with Code: Composing with algorithmic notationOrganised Sound
Herding cats: Observing live coding in the wildComputer Music Journal
From a music industry to sound industries

2013

On creativity and calculation: attempts at and rejections of formal definitions of creativity [Review] editors: Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno (2012) Computers and creativityComputational Culture
The threnoscope: a musical work for live coding performance

2011

Algorithms as scores: Coding live musicLeonardo Music Journal
When instruments become architecture: on liquefying frozen music
Confessions of a live coder
Interface investigations: the thinking behind tools for musical thinking
The musical score: the system and the interpreter

2010

Sobre como emborrachar un ordenadorSonic Ideas
Fermata: Live Coding PerformanceSkyler and Bliss Original Citation Adkins, Monty and Segretier, Laurent (2015) Skyler and Bliss. In: xCoAx 2015: Proceedings of the Third Conferenc on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X. Universidade do Porto, Porto
Designing constraints: Composing and performing with digital musical systemsComputer Music Journal
An epistemic dimension space for musical devices

2009

Epistemic tools: the phenomenology of digital musical instruments
The phenomenology of musical instruments: a surveyeContact
Of epistemic tools: Musical instruments as cognitive extensionsOrganised Sound

2007

The acoustic, the digital and the body: A survey on musical instruments

2006

Affordances and constraints in screen-based musical instruments

2003

Lunarly visible

Keywords for Specialisation:

Digital humanities

Artificial Intelligence

Philosophy of Music

Philosophy of technology

Science and literature

Human-computer interaction

Computer Science

Cognitive Science